The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-10-21

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'slaai.ls ia taxing Up anI l.rsscrssag
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isasss, operate powerfully 'shsa spread
'sseaacAa Ga the ssFfAec a mos iag
laasA . unapsssiOaahle yet this resalss
ssA - mseA kOn Tie .sstringrnt-
H~4isv lAsy ev~,ais. - Iran ll,sir son.
e0pdssting poser. We spread leaves
Hrosed the ,ruak, If trees. the bios
sSsaiag u which il ]. dcsirable to re.
'ard tn spring wc apply lhcm sI.o IL
-aaalsi.iag.- The object u which !. TO
retain the noissurc In tbs soil lor tie
bsssai u trees ns~ly ,raasplamel.
wass rAey are 'pread upon the sur
face " grass lands, they present, to
very great sAlcni, the action u the
solar rAys. al.d thu. il a measure de-
Bsiss iAs uoss u the cncrgiaihg and
ElialiEiag inii0ehcrs npoa which their
.ireagih anil sigoF very essentially de-
pend. Whatever may bo the effects
u leaves. ia their crude state upou
cultivated vegetation, NC sec that they
ara smil.en,ly useiul ia woodlands,
wlsua, " Asy arc removed annually,
the growth ID no, oaIy greatly retard.
81, bot arrested.
In compost. Slso, we may often zee
ihe salae Of Isases tsngibly sxempli-
Ned, ior experience has long assured
Us that few n'ore rcarly valuable ac-
cessaoBs can be made 10 the compost
heap Of yard. than that p5asinsd from
the forest. In the cultivation of
young fruis trees, this species Of dress
ing 10 now greatly valued. From
oae 10 two years are required to pre-.
l'arr them for this purpose according
10 the particular use to which they
are 10 be applied.
AaI Kind Of forest leaves will
~ found valuable for this pur.
pose. All that is nessary is 10 afford
them lime 10 decomposc. The foil.
age Of the alder, bass, poplar, willsw,
and other similar trees, is more read
~ ascompessdihsaa thai o. the chn,or
Oat but tia, possess he's, eoa.i.tence,
and consequently tend less 10 The in
sSsn.e Of The compost hemp.
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Tbs following lael. are collated from
tie official statistics u Minnesota
kapid has been the growth Of the
new Westesn States, Minnesota has
surpassed them all IN the rapidity Of
ne progress Its population in 1850
wa. $3.50; in 1860, lT2,022. Its
agricultural deyelopmea, has been
even more remarkable Tho number
at acres Of plowed land in 1850 was
1900 in 1854, 10 900 in 1860, 1873,
having iucrease4'rarly thirty
fold in six years.
The number Of bushels OF wheat
produced 10 1850 was ] .40i in 1854,
1000; In 1860, 5,00i, 432 bushels,
lieing nearly thirty bushels 10 each
inhahiiani, or four times as much as
the whole wheat crop Of New Eng
land in 1850.
'Ihs- *holesrasaHt Of grain and POI
,atscs prosiuccd in sIlII~e s.ola in 1850
~aas ,7O9 bushels ia 1850 il was ! 1 :
a9s,sl7 bushel.--mosily in the small
grains. What progress Tor ten
years.
This rapid agricultural growth has
Hsen achieved chiefly since the col.
lapse of land speculation in 1857.
In 1858 Minnesota imported bread
aAl provisions. In 1861 she export
ed'3O00. 900 bushels Of wheat alone.
Minnesota is probably ne ha rhsat
Mate IN tie JnioM, with the excep-
siea Of California and perhaps Wis
eonsin. The statistics Of her wheat
srep sl'ow IN average yield ia 1850
Of swen,y-two busl'als per acre, and IN
1889 of nineteen busilels--lhese ie-
suits being frum fifty TO three hun
dred per cent, er-aier than that Of the
principal wheat States, viii the exeep-
iioas noted. Ia 1889, for example.
the average yield q iewa was four