St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-09-26
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The pasturageS Of the prairies and wild
hay IS D far superior TO the clover and
and timothy ol Eastern and Western
St1ss, that cattlsakillcd o&the prairie,
without having any care or feeding, make
beef superior %. any Stalled !. eyeruss In
Pennsylvania Or, Kestuqky. Il Becf and
venison is such ! clear, bright red, a, I
never sawsinsany- nther=pasea,:sand.Hhen
cut into steaks, tie TieE juice rl15,so read
lily that it is almost impossible tpIprcyen
waste. The experiment. has sbeen fully
tried Of bringing cattle from Red River
Aadatntnin8a thsaasai in Eitha okhssn,f asM-
irois ands Iowa. When tES'bYa6er kils
them, lie will tell- every animal that eamase
frem the north, BY tie superior healthy
state of the liver. Segvith tho human
a.5imal{; nobody Is eversbilieaa There no
body has the hyer, complaint Or the blues,
and the horrors are out ii the question.
The worst case Of fevegeud ague brought
up from Illinois is cured within ! year.
'Ef4f+@-I THE wlNrxRs. S4-&y%9
But The winters. When the three cold
days are over tho Mercury wakes up and
walks up the tube. Then, for weeks aud
weeks together it will stand. coquett;u8
with freezing point. Keeping everybody
uneasy lest it is going to, thaw and spoil
tho sleighing. sometimes the sun Will
melt off the snow on southern slopes, for
all the short day he does 1nothiing but
shine; but = lightsnow is-apt to repair the
damage. From the clearness Of the At
mospherc the moon and stars .ppear Pc
culiarly bright and we have more than
our share Of Northern Lights. I have seen
nights, in Northern Minnesota, which
would be worth = journey Of thousands Of
miles to see. When the; moon and stars
shone with radiance that was bewilde.-
i..ss- and the white. earth flashed back
the s cam Of myriads3of diamonds through
an atmosphere still as perfect peace j; and
on which foatcd countless millions Of sir
very fakes, bright as angels wings aud
light as gossomar, willie every twig, bush
aud tree, aud every fcathery spray Of grass
was loaded with captured specimens OF
the floating glory, aud tho Impulse ,qf ,er-
cry heart was t. stand and wonder aud
adore: I have seen this ~ hensthe air war
so mild that oyercoats werca burden--.nd
l have. scen, the river il his two feet fet-
tiers, and the earth covered With snow for
two weeks. together, when the air Was 80
mild and spriuglike that
have gone again and again to sec if it were
possible the mercury was not above frees
ing point. Last winter we had three
cold spells Of three days each, and the
mercury was often down to 3elp s.fdlrins
the night, and somo times below it ; but,
Tor all purposes Of living and . epjoymen.
it was superior to any Pennsylsanis win.
ter have ever seen. Winter before last
l travelled 400 miles, always north of St.
Paul, and always in open convey ances
without suffering any Inconvenience. The
three coolest days Of that wiuter I rode,
every day, in an open cutter. 20 nilee
without stopping land the coldest night,
lccturcd in a schoolhousc which had not 4
shovelfull Of plaster on it, but was built Of.
inch boards set on end, with = narrow
strip nailed over tho cracks do not
think three more people. could have 20,
into the house, unless they had been hung
up on the rafters. Yet, after l had kept
them there for one hour and . quarter,
they called on a gentleman for . speech,
and aftet he had talked three quarters OF
an hour, they insisted on his going on. l
slept that night in board skaply built
like the school house and was a. CON-
Portable as fec i supposed to DO in y
blanket. know one family from New
England, who has lived Eve winters up,
there, in board shapty. tbat IL, with an
inch pine board between them and =
Northern Minnesota winter-have child
born there in the winter, who is now four
years old and never trouble themselves
about the best remedy for colds. We
Pennsylvanians, of St. Cloud cften, during
our bright winters, look back with COM
passion on the friends w left in the land
Of Penn, who are then dragging them
selves around throug Oh fathomless depths
Of mud beneath weeping skies, frozen up
one day and thawcd out the next and al
ways moe or less in . shiyer With tho
damp. .r5e .sb,a-.. y B.. s....gz:-, r
a,.a9 SOIL, LANDSCAPE, pRoDucIs.s sag "
81 In tho southern part Of tho State there
is deep limestone ledge underlying The
soil and at St. Paul and St. Apthony they
quarry limestone out Of the cellar, To- bald
the: walls Of tho house. This. disappears
before you get up to- St: Cloud; aud the
rocks are 4 hard, grsy era6ite! TIL soil
west OF the Mississippi al the way above
The Minneaots river, and, . distance below
It, 10 = deep, blaok loam, mixed withstand.
In Stearns county this rests Oh 2 sabsoil
I sand aud the drainags IS perfect, so
that We have no wheat rust 81 miasmiSs.
This black sol il, from, one 70 Sur feet
deep, and Varies ID richness: III you b.
70 the Red River it deepen..
ind The asabsoil bscemesiciayI abdf Isl &C.
Red River ValRv IhnreS = M .lluv;al IA.