The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-12

best grown and greatest variety garden yege.
tables, I'd premium, agricultural paper. DO.
best IL winter radishes, LIST premium, diploma.
M D Clark, Mount Moriah Farm, Ramsey
county, best stalks celery lst premium, diplo.
ma. Do. best IL parsnips, LIST premium. diplo.
ma. Do. second best bushel Rio Grande wheat.
End premium, agricultural paper. Do. second
best satisfy, I'd premium, agricultural paper.
Do. second best egg plants, I'd premium. 40.
ricultural paper. Do. second best 6 heads CAB.
bage, I'd premium, agricultural paper.
z W Eddy, St Paul, best 10 pounds butter,
LIST premium, diploma. Do. largest cheese, LIST
premium, diploma.
Mrs Chas Hoag, Minneapolis, best 20 pounds
butter, LIST premium, diploma.
Joseph Craig, West st Paul, best IL white
carrots, LIST premium, diploma. Do. second
best IL orange carrots, I'd premium, agricultu.
raj paper. Do. best II turnip beets LIST premi.
UNI, diploma. -
Joseph Haskell, Cottage Grove, best half
dozen ears corn, LIST premium, diploma. Do.
second best ~ pounds butter, End premium,
agricultural paper.
Zelotus Downs, Richfield, Hennepin county.
best cheese, not less than Is pounds, made in
1860, LIST premium, diploma.
j Webb, Minneapolis, best gallon sorghum
syrup, LIST premium, diploma and SIS. Do. best
sample Sorghum sugar not less than 10 pounds,
LIST premium, diploma and S..
o Bean, Dakota county, best cheese over Is
pounds, made in 1860, LIST premium, diploma
w Stinson, Minneapolis, 4 largest beets, LIST
premium, diploma.
Charles H0ag, Minneapolis, second best bush.
ell (Scotch Fife) wheat, End premium, agricul.
tural paper.
Matthew Broome, second best sacks flour
End premium, agricultural paper.
w Read, Nininger, second best gallon Sor-
ghum syrup, Ind premium, work on sugar.
ali
LIST premium, diploma.
B Cole, Minneapolis, hive bees and honey,
LIST premium, diploma.
Name not entered), best bushel Poland oats,
LIST premium, diploma.
Your committee would further remark
that among the great variety of Irish pota-
toes there appeared new variety of seeding
potatoes exhibited by several persons, but
the germs of which were introduced and
develope as your committee were informed
by N. E. Stoddard, of Minneapolis, who
obtained the germs of Mr.. Job Pratt in
1855, and has cultivated, developed and
them from year to year until the present
time. They may be fairly claimed as a
Minnesota Seeding. They are now of
average size larger than the neshannock
which they resemble in appearance, having
however, a high color, bleted with purple,
the eye raised, and yielding says Mr.. Stod.
dard one hundred per cent. more than the
neshannock. We look upon them as great
acquisition to our already large variety
of that favorite and necessary vegetable, the
Irish potatoe. Sweet potatoes of fair size
and appearance were also on exhibition as
also Diascoria batatas.
A new variety of corn raised and exhibi-
ted byJ. P. Plumer of Brooklyn, Hennepin
county, was also thought by your commit
tee to be worthy of special attention. This
is the result of series of experiments ex-
tending through several years, by Mr.. Plum-
er, produced by planting the flint and the
white and yellow dent varieties, and selecting
the best and earliestears. Thecorn exhibited
bad l6 rows, small cob was solid and well
ripened the ears averaged nine inches in
length.
Mr.. Haskell, of Cottage Grove, exhibited
most beautiful samples of the King Philip
and Washington Dutton varieties, and nu-
merous samples of the yellow dent and sweet
corn exhibited by persons unknown to your
committee conclusively prove that Mime
sofa is not "too cold for cawn."
Your committee noticed with qualification
and delight new variety of spring wheat
which has been cultivated from small begin
nings at or near Lake City for the past three
years, and is entitled to be called the Mn
nesota Excelsior White Spring Wheat. 1t
originated, or rather was introduced into
this country in the following manner
A few grains OF wheat were discovered in
a box of shrubbery imported from Europe,
and planted in pots and ripened in the
green house. From this seed Mr.. A. M.
Gaylord, of Lake City, obtained small
quantity and has carefully cultivated it, un-
til the present year be has raised at the rate
of seventy bushels to the acre. He repre-
sents the straw as strong and not liable to
lodge-that from portion of his field he
obtained "full double the number of grains
to the head of any variety of spring wheat
that am acquainted with" 1t is white,
thin.skinned wheat, as white and much re-.
sembling the white winter wheat, from
which it could not be distinguished except
by very close and experienced Observers
The head is slightly bearded and has short
or supplemental heads starting from the
base of the main head. The seed from
which that on exhibition was raised, was
sown on the I'd day OF April, on land spring
plowed and harvested about the middle of
July. Your committee look with confidence
to this wheat as a substitute for winter
wheat, and as spring wheat, is more GER
tain and less pynensCe cron WELDING great I.
er returns with less labor and care, they do
not hesitate to commend it to the favorable
consideration of the farmers of Minnesota.
In 1853, Minnesota was the only State
Offering full exhibition of the cereal grains
at the Worlds Fair in New York, and the
excellent quality of the samples the exhibit.
ed, was commented upon and admired by all
American and foreign visitors who felt an
interest in agriculture. 1t is highly impor-
tant that the character Of our grain should
suffer no deterioration, and that we should
improve every opportunity of obtaining at
the earliest moment the best and most pro-
ductive varieties of wheat suited to our eli
mate and soil. ....t.
In this connection it may be permitted to
mention, upon the authority of Alexis Bali
ley, ESQ.,, of Wabashaw, that the first wheat
raised in Minnesota was upon the island at
the junction of the Minnesota and Mississippi
pi rivers, in the year 1920, by j. B. Fari.
bault, who raised crop of spring wheat
from seed obtained at Prairie du Chen.
Also that Joseph r. Brown, ESQ.,, in 1881,
raised crop of spring wheat upon what is