The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-14
tegral and simple geographical mass" Re-
cipe No. 2 is for making Minnesota soil

clpe NO. is for making Minnesota soil:
| Water of absorption. 3,75
Insoluble soil Al
Insoluble silicates 77.Ol
Insoluble organic matter. $50
ProtOXide of IRON. 2,97
OXlde or lrOn.. Observation-Disclosures. 266
And ct scGttery, ct scattery, ct scattery, as
our Schoolmaster says. This is all to be
mixed up with "lossiiferous rocks" and
strap soil on the Kettle river" where the
"hypogenous rocks obtrude in " argillace-
GUS moulds." For further directions, see
page Il.
On page Y you will find recipe for
making "soils of the coniferous regions"
to whit
l water Shed.
| l superior Basin.
Doctor Wheeock says the best way to
pick out these soils is by seeing that the
materials are more comminuted and more
generally intermxed withargilaceous sa-
| line and calcareous ingredients"
Now, a this may mean something diff
terent from what | take it to mean, but /
look at it like a plain farmer, as l am
and being the only farmer about Sawyers-
vile, that has any dictionary, Pm mighty
apt to understand it, if any Of them
can.
On page so, the Doctor tells US how
agricultural physics" has made 6 deci
sive elimination of the wheat growth in
Minnesota" &C., to whit
''This cOmlparitiUe ajluence of the wheat
! product of Minnesota affords a decisive il
lustration of the remarkable Lal0 = q & 4
as governing the distribution Of commercial plants
that, these plants yield the greatest pro-
ducts near the northernmost limits in which
they will grow"
That settles point I've argufed good
deal in my OWE mind, why peaches wont
grow in this country; it's because we ere
too far South.
Farther on, on page 81, Doctor Whee-
lock tells US how to open, fence, and work
a farm. He fences the land in this way:
800 X 4O=$l28
which you see he has put gate and rair
OF bars into it. He then tells Us what we
farmers never thought On before, that
"much or gerry little, may be expended in
building" He next sets bis farmer and
ta0o coOs to work on $795 capital invested
in wild lands, without fences, and only
twenty acres broke, intending the farmer
shall work forty acres. This is perhaps,
because, as the Doctor says, it is better to
buy out somebody else who is selling out
for less than cost of improvements, and is
going to "try again"
Well, then, the farmer goes to work On
forty acres with only twenty broke, and no
fences. and the Doctor says, If he works
himself, he will raise, in six months, 800
bushels OF wheat worth 5000; which will
give the farmer profit oil 500. On the
next forty acres ne needn't WORK himself,
and on that ne will make profit of $40
more; and SO on, for every forty acres on
his farm. AS nothing is said about break
ing more than the twenty acres, and no
fences at al, take it that the succeeding
forty acres following the first. is intended to
produce spontaneously natural, of its own
accord. HOwsomever, the Doctor says,
that If the profits don't quite come up to
these figures, that it can be more than made
up "by the sources of profit from the Dairy,
the Garden, The Orchard, and the Stall"
Which conclude these " agricultural
| Statistics" in the stanzas of the poet, as
follows:
"When health is gone and money spent,
Then learning is most excellent"
AND am,
Your humble. ODE dent servant,
ZEBULON SAWYER.
e. S.-Why call MIR. Wheelock Doc
tor is because our Aca lemy has deferred
the decree of A. 2. D., Doctor of Agricul.
tural Physics, onto him. S.