St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-03-28
money, should bring cattle and sheep, and

money, should bring cattle and sheep, and
should calculate to, put all their OK
ports into cheese, butter, beef and wool.
Our yield Of wheat is larger than in most
other States, apd our soil more easily Gull
tivated, but then, wheat is no better than
can OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, while our beef,
butter and wool are superior to any that
can be grown or made in damper or more
southern climate. Minnesota beef must
certainly, in time, bring twenty per cent;
moro in the eastern market than that rails
ed in Ill. Hogs do very we'll here but
we do not think pork will ever be largely
exported. Pigs like mud: and we have
but little. They do not enjoy our cold dry
winters as do cattle, sheep and poultry.
The land is rolling. For Rail Road,
see article on that subject. See "Lecture,"
about water. No clearer, purer, better
water in the world; except that it is all
hard. Lakes, rivers and rills all indicate
mineral deposits IN great abundance.
-. As for health the residents of Minneso-
ia generally learn to count upon the health
mess of our climate with confidence which
induces lack Of ordinary precaution. For
instance, women 20 miles with the tops
of their heads bare, when the mercury is
below zero One had her brain frozen last
winter, and so arrived at her destination
dead bride. Many others bring on head
aches, eura]gias and many ailments which
are no doubt the direct result Of chilling
the brain, while very many are no doubt
preserved alive by having dead air cham
bers on the top of their heads, protecting
what little brains they have, which must
of course lie in the lower regions of the
Uranium. Infants, too, are permitted to
die from want Of sufficient warmth and
nourishment Our climate is so healthy
that babies are expected to grow like young
pappooses are supposed to do, half naked,
while many Of our mothers have taken
lessons in modern science, and feed baby
when scientific men say it ought to be fed,
not when baby cries for hunger. From
these and similar causes the list of deaths
are near about what they Dug ht to be in a
less healthful. country. So, we do not say
much about health. People who live care
fully here are healthy; but folks who do
not, can get sick aud die in Minnesota as
we'll as any place else. In population Of
900, in St. Cloud, there have been six
deaths the past winter, four of diptheria,
one of typhoid fever, and one Of heart dis
ease. A large part Of our population come
here diseased, become much better, and
overestimate their strength. Of course
neither they nor their children can be SO
robust as: persons who have never been re-
duccd by disease, and uutiI this is fairly
taken into consideration, and experience
has laugh us all to adapt our habits to the
climate, the mortality will be greater than
it otherwise would be. Persons who choose
locations in low places where there are
deep deposits Of mari, do sometimes take
typhoid fever Of a very bad type: while
on high .prairies, so far as we can learn, it
is unknown. We consider the climate ex-
ceedingly hcalthful, Notwithstanding VIC
ourself continue to he sick about as much
as ever we did, because we counted so
much on the improvement of our health
during the first few months, that we plac-
ed ourself in place where two or three
peoples work was constantly demanded of
u.s.. Many others have done likewise with
similar results. If new: co,ners want to
preserve their health long they must not
abuse it.