New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-01-05

90 eNWe0, " Woon hAraIyeveT DO Neoy VI cos oe<n
after the election ths second Monday Of S<ptenber
end meanwhile the fatal frost you'd come destroying
much, and pinch nS all except perhaps occasionally
6eld on the top Of high hill The year before vas
Fort Fsirfed, am crcdibly informed Of nearly 10
bushels Of wheat 10 the acre. While was there l
knew Of wbeatcrop exceeding 30 bushels per acre.
very few much n escssaos and the sss.ss. crop a
bitten with the rest, am confident would sot exceed
~ Is bushels per 1t s not fair TO take isolated
taGnces Of the best CROP, and hold them cot 10 the
world as the acreage crops.
In Minpeso,s, farmers begin 10 sow grain In the
Spring. on an acreage, a fEa ssoah earlier than in
Aroostook, and crcps mature here very much more
rapidly than there. Wheat scvn here late IN April or
very early in May is generally ready to cns 10 jay;
frpss snce have lived here, have come all the way
from Sept. % to Oct. TO- Corn is a. sure crop hero
as in Northern Illinois, and yields as yell a. there:
Oats DO tolerably well here but certainly not % Vel
as at Aroostook. think the average yield 70 about
two.hirjs as great as there. Potatoes yield o. Wen
here as there and quite az good which did noe
think when lived there could be true oil any other
and under the sun. TnrniPs Yield as wen hers as
there, and all other root crops carrots bces parnps,
&c.l much better. Tomstocs, which could never
rpen at Aroostook, here hang rich and ripe upon the
vines for ak weeks before injury by frost Melons,
that grows upon vines yield here in such prcfu:on q
s almost incredible TO any who does not eco WITH
his own eyes the growing crop, vhie wild hops,
grapes and plums grow abundantly throughout our
timber and brush land.
Ihaye thus indicated some of the advantages this
State has over Aroostook County as farming region,
and perhaps should here stops bot must trespase up
your patience for few words more OF comparison.
/ concede then, that Aroostook has excellent soil
rally better than that Of Minnesota esst Of the
Mississippi but certainly rot so good az osr so ~est
of the Mssasippi Some Of the more prominent adj
vantsges Of Minnesota are:
First. Our SHOWS, giving US about three months ex-
celert sleighipg are always light and dry am speak
ing Of that part Of Minuesots north OF Lake Re
PM, drifting 6adly, because Of the stiffness OF
Winters and are hardly ever over one foot deep.
though have known snow VERY light to De thirty
inches deep in the timber for very short time. In
Aroostook snow stays on from four to five months,
and hardly ever fails by Spring to be four feet deep,
rendering il almost impossible for teams to pass eacn
other the road, and compelling each farmer to build
close by the roadside unless he wishes TO keep team
constantly busy in breaking path from the road 10
his house. The Winters there are very vintry and
clustering northeast snow-stcrms, and blows Of two
or three days at time not being not uncommon and
the roads through the cearings being generally allied
up with snow. level with the tops OF the roadside
ferces. The Winter temperature Of the two places
does not differ much, though our Winters are much
the shortest.
Second, While we have tiubt r.land enough for
those who wish ia belt Of timber 10 miles wide, OF
growth heavier than that at Aroostook running nom
bank of the Mississippiour prares offer u the set
tier ready made farms. The acreage cost OF clearing
hardwood land per acre, at Aroostock found about
as follows, having cleared personally or by proxy
days WORK from two to four, scccrd, to the chopper
and the growth; climbing down .ae day TO one
ard half burning, 'junkipg that 10, chopplng into
suitable leDgths) and "Ping not Iess than SIX I'm,
"brandipg of" from one to one and half The arc
rare expense Of clearing land there, ready for the
crop is not Iess than twelve days work; l have, In
case Of heavy burn, done II With eight days work,
l, a. 81 nyh las yin
much white brush to pile and burn, it win cost ffsen
or Then the crop 10 chespy put In, BY amply
sowing and narrowing among the stumps with ono
horse and email square harrow; but the harvesting
terrible job, the first CROP from the prOdgiOas
growth OF straw, must be cut with sickle Is gen.
orally much lodged" ripens very upevenly, thus
needing to lie long sin the gavel' before becoming
dry enough to bind, while at that tine Of year alter
nate fross and transforms there the rule. 1t gen.
orally costs there four days work to the acre to reap,
bind ard stack new.land grain. On our praires We
break" the sward at the rate Of one and a half TO
two acres per day with man and six-ox team, SOW
with machine, or harrow in with a span OF horses
and broad harrow and In the Fall cut with cradle or
reaping mnchine grain ripeniDg very eveply, We
are able to bind and stack il as fast as cut and gee-
orally have good weather for our harvesting. think
our land although the straw lighter, produces -
much gram per acre as any lever saw speak nowof
Minnesota west Of the Mississipp and praire farm
or can cultivate from six TO ten latter 1t 10 once
broken up ~ easily as timber farmer can cultivate
grass ON our prsries and the nnumersble hay mead
ows scattered throughout our State the farmer here
not pillow clear any land or pasturage or rais-
ing hay, VT lie the Aroostook tanner must al once
seed down to grass bis first cleared land for hay and
then for pasture unless he likes better than nsed to
TO hunt up his cows and through the woods, and
after al bis hunting have them lie out haf the ume.
On any Of our praries can have grass cut cnred,
stacked fenced ard powed around to keep on pfafie
free for 81 50 to % per tun while the immenss unsP
propriated prairie affords pasorng range lot count.
less herds OF cattle. Can any man who has 70 clear
land for his bayfield, and pasture compete Win sach
Third, Northern Minnesota 10 better ra,ered thsp
Aroostook by streams and lakes, and water, clear,
abundant and hmpd Though "hard, ~ at Aroos-
took be got in almost any part 81 u by dgg,ng
lies Aroostook County is limestone looking like slate,
and IL act up edgewise so that in digging well there
il is generally found that the wser runs out through
the seams which abound In the ledge about a. fast
az il runs in. Here we have such trouble. North
ern Minnesota is also better wstered and timbered
than any Western State or Territory.
Fourth Minnesota il as healthy as any part Sf
New-Epglnnd, having no fever and ague, aud no con-
sumption, except few cases imported.
FIN, The market Of Aroostook depends entirely
upon the wants Of lumbeimeD, whore business IL moro
variable than any other in the known world, and must
come 10 an end there for want of material MIN
nesota by railroad ~ Lake Superior as near New
York and the markets Of the world Northern IL
lnois and Southern Wsconein In ono year more our
railroads, now being vigorously pushed ON, viii DO
completed to La Crosse, thus bringing us within hfty
hours Of Boston, while Aroostook q only claimed
TO be within sixty hours Of Bos.on and by the usual
modes Of travel is four days therefrom.
Our day Of speculation and Inflated prices has passed
away and Our business community Is paying its PEN
atty; but our farmers are generally free fom em!Iar
rassmeDH and have had good crops, ard the whols
community is grad Isly recovering from the crash.
One Of its good effects has been N bring prices 70
reasonable standard, 30 that emgrants u moderate
mean. can low get started ON their farms NitheA