The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-06-02
News Of Oar Own State.


Cha,feld Republicans leading editorial this
week. The editor sdvocates raising hogs
for expectation, and insists that the business
can be made % profitable and productive in
this State a. in Ohio, Indiana. or Illinois.
The plan, and II i sensible one, Of the
Republican, is as folIows:
The plan generally adopted by farmers in
these States we have mentioned Is this Each
farmer keeps through the winter his breeding
sows only, and OF course their number depends
upon the number Of hogs be proposes TO fatten
the coming fall, it being safe TO estimate that
the sows will average five pigs each. Through
the winter OF course the breeding sows require
feeding, in the spring they go with their young
TO the woods and unoccuped fields, and ind
excellent subsistence on roots. In this country
the acorns being preserved by the frost Of win.
ter, almost intact, till spring, they would hnd
plenty Of them 10 eat until June or July. In
the fall the hogs faiten rapidly on the abundant
mass of the woods until about four or six weeks
previous to killing time when they are driven
in, into large enclosures aud fed upon corn,
say on an average about ten bushels to each
hog, and then slaughtered, the average weight
being by such a course about two hundred
pounds. OF course the profit on such manage.
ment is enormous, the actual expenditure for
each two hundrad pounds Of pork, not being
to exceed two dollars, and in the States we
have mentioned the pork always sells for at
least four dollars per hundred, in which case
there are six dollars obtained from an expsndi-
ture Of two, a profit that puts 40 per cent.
money loaners in the shade.
At the recent annual session OF the Order
Of Good Templars OF this State, held at Red
Wing, Rev. JOIN QuIGLEY, Of Winona was
reelected &. w. c. r.; Mrs CHAs. WEBB,
OF Wabashaw, was elected q. w. V. T.;
and as representatives to G. l.. of North
America, +. A. WILLIAMSON, Esq, of Wa
sioja, and Mrs. WILKINSON, Of Red Wing,
were chosen. The next meeting will be held
at st. Anthony.
The Ginseng fever is raging with una
bated fury ap the Minnesota valley. A
gentleman from St. Peter informs US that
drying houses are being put up there to cure
the article, aAd that hundreds Of men are at
work in the Big Woods, gathering the root.
Good wages, better than at Pixies Peak, or
on the Zumbro, are made in digging the ar
ticle; an industrious man, with ordinary
success, can make from two to three dollars
per day. Ginseng commands cash at all
talley towns, and the competition between
Fal dealers secures good prices. The
hle Plaine Enquirer, says:
te understand that number of virginians,
ha I recently located near Lake Washington in
lie Aeur Co.; where they have erected DryiRg
KiliAo large capacity, and are at this time ex.
tensA ly engaged in the purchase and prepa.
ratio Apf Ginseng for market.
Thetare paying from five to six cents per
poundtor the root in its green state, and will
pay cad on deiiruy for an unlimited amount.
As therA Is an abundance OF the plant in this
twenty-five would suggest to the parties en-.
gagged In ets preparation, the pr0prety Of es-
tablishinsta branch of their business in this
immediate eighborhood F.; they would undoubt
e1ly obtaiaa large supply of the Ginseng. and
viii ind Many persons willing to engage in
digging as stoa as they learn that it will meet
win ready Ale.
The WinAebago payment came off on
Wednesday l4t. The Belfast took up the
Minnesota rivt last week the annuity goods
for the Winnetsgo and Sioux. The Sioux
payment will take place about the first Of
June. To prevept recurrence of the diff.
culties with the Wild Yanktons, the Super
intendent contemp'ates taking up detach.
ment OF U. 5. troops from Fort Ridgley,
and among them Major Sherman's celebra-
ted Battery.
STARING Disaster IN THE FAcE.-On the
l4tb, % men left Minneapolis for Pixies
Peak, and on the oath another party start.
ed. A luuatic asylum would be the proper
termination of the expedition.
The Republicans of ST. Anthony are in
favor Of prohibItory liquor law. The
same party in St. Paul, take their tods
with all the relish OF old soaks. The Ners,
Of st. Anthony is excited on the subject,
and says:
A stringent, thorough.goIng Prohibitory Law
Is eur only safety-a law without haw in il,
that shall strike its flashing edge TO the very
root OF the Upas tree, and not like moral sus.
sion hack away At the outer limbs, nor like Ii.
cense. make war upon the shadow Of it. The
fsol who should attempt to dam the Mississippi
with chip At its present stage Of water, 10 .
sage compared with HIN who would seriously
propose TO promote the cause OF temperance,
by blazing away ~ the liquor shops with our
present hcense.law blunderbuss. II is q
weapon that kills ct the breach.
y. GRAVES, purporting to hail from Chill.
cothe, Ohio, has been cutting the eye teeth
OF the Rochestrians, down in Olmsted
county. This is grave joke.
The Free Press says Of the Bank OF Roch.
ester:
VIM. Harwood. Esq. has sold out his interest
in the above bank 10 Messrs. Chas. W. 4 Ayl.
mer Keith. of the Corn Exchange Bank, Fair.
held, III. The proprietors have rented the Of.
fee Of c. II. Morton, Esq. which they are now
htting up with The necessary fixtures for the
bank. They propose 10 establish the institu-
ton on q sound and permanent basis, and are
fully prepared 70 redeem then currency TO any
extent
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