St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-02-28

The Minnesota Farmer and
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tfefhpat crop ittaJs:
;'Dl4 VReeloce climates the number Of
.a4rd deyltea to Whebt culture in 1860, At
double thata OF 1850, and the average about
The 9 same, .a.tiag:oyer 8 600 900 bushels
for the State"
But the editor 81 az Garde,,e- ! thinks
t.:xil-naaeh- 4, QQ0, 600 hells,.=-He
thinks the Legislature should make 40 ap-
preparation to aid the stats and other E.
ricultural societies. r. J. NJ. Hastings
contributes AZ laxtials a. ChiekQEy,
which .is extensively used as > .substitute
for coffee, ahd Fecolmmiends 'its> cnnltuIle,ip
Minnesota, j. ?. T. Watson, gives the re-
'alt Of / h II II :hst yesr's t4pefients heall,
waiting sorgham, and says: 1,,<.u
"The yield in this vicinity, lLakeiaudJ
was from fifty TO pne hundred aid fifty
galions per acre, and the cane which
yielded the most was tkebest matufed.?ss
A. b: Weber says there was paid to
the farmers Of Freeborn County, for beef
cattle, last fall, six. Thousand dollars. and
claims that Il J. 8. Trigg, Of t!.at eaunty,
has some of the finest .woolcd sheen. in
Minnesota. The thrashers report shows
that the average Of wheat per- aare in Da-
cotah County, IS, 3l-lo0 bushels per acre.
This is by machine measure. By we,es:
it would be much larger. -
The Farmers club of the Legislature
report: -: ',v:::r:>::.
Re.olved, That in the opinion I; Of, this
Club, the average. amount OF, Wheat raised
per acre, In Minnesota the past season; is
twenty-seven bushels per acre; by weight,
dthat= the amount raisedi in the setatrsis
eight million bushels; q r.
: Mr: Desnoyer, of Ramsey Co., took two
loads Of pork te-S Superior which :te sold for
seven dollars per hundrd, and cleared
money by the trip. The -swee: potato of
the Nansemond variety has been success
fully cultivated in Ramsey County: Mr..
Ford seysttit is admirahly:adapted to our
climate; and with proper management on
suitabl T. soils q fair crop can be realized
nearly every year" He, urges The cult
walton of the small fruits, and we say,
amen. Rev. John Mattocks contributes
valuable article on the :"Fertility Of Min
nesota Soil" which he argues is largely
composed Of d,sintegratcd volcanic rocks,
instead Of decomposed vegetable matter az
is generally supposed; and that: hence: it
is not liable to become exhausted fortases.
He says: -: = s,.''a ~
Garden and field SOL, j in and around
Saint Pau, much liks hesfer,lliyhtness,
has exhibited 2producsiyeness for yeas,
without artificial dressing, UNSURPASSED by
the most cultivated gardens ff'the East.
Ny own garden in St: Paul, has been
cultivatedsixI yeats, withoutsdaessing, ex-
cept the slightest in extent, and still Shows
NO signs Of dec?y. :. 4 friend of mine, who
had travelled IN Palestine, told me that be
had visited the Plains Of Esdraelon, which
had been cultivated since the da~s Of
Abraham, 1000 years, with no abatement
OF fertility, and said that he could pierce
the It, soil with the whole length Of his cane.
The fertilizing elements Of disintesratcd
volcanic rocks arel4 the sois difpsed with
just proportions for agriculture.
But, get the Farmer and Gardener
and read the balance YOURSELF It is only
81 per annum:
-cassias n: Clay, sfter,::.a few days
spent in Washington, has changed his CON-
promise views, and come back to his old
ground, the Constitution as 1t Is: Good :!
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