St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-05-11

e.. 20 4. $500
year. The .pr;rg .ad .unme. rain.
fall in sep,ls shewers, sufficient to
quicken sssgetaFon and support it,
go sth lspa While 10 Igaian., Illinois,
and ethaD localities more abundantly
Supplied with mo'stut,I, spring ploving
y deferred for weeks on account of un-
timely rains, and harvesting postponed
for the needed sunshine, the farmer of
Minnesota pursues his work With scarce
y the interruption Of a single day of
rainy OF muddy weather.
To this comparative dryness Of the
summer air, doubtless, is, to be attribu--
ted the almost entire exemption Of Min
nesota from rust, mildew, and other
Casualties Of the harvest field, SO com
mon in regions with warm, moist CHI
u'a,e' IVA " i. Aal,i, "a. r,l as1ss.lss fs,s:
|: WIND--From observations .made:at
Fort Smelling during period Of twelve
years, it'is' found that the yearly aver
age Of southerly winds was 1os days.
IF TO this IS added the number Of days
in the 4 year in which. currents came
from the southeast and southwest, 1t
would increase, the sum to 1l72 days.
The.prevalence Of these southerly winds
no :douts;adds very much to the warmth
Of the spring aud summer months Of
Minnesota. - -.
FRosr.-From records kept at Fort
Ridgely, Minnesota, it appears that the
latest frost inttbe spring Of 1854 oocur-
|'red on May l1th the zesrliest frost in
the fill Of that year was On tie 4th Of
October - IN 1856, the latest spring
frost was Nay stL and the earliest
fall frost the 9Th; of zSeptember. s.:a
+ In 1889, late and. early frosts pre-
vailed throughout most of the Western
tStstes, IF which the coinmi.sssary cii.sii' Of sta-
tistics, in his report for 1861, says W {:
.:The The heavy frost Of June, 1859, which
VAS very destructive TO- wheat and corn
lin New York, Ohio and Michigan, and
fthst efSeptember, killing corn and po-
;tatoes in Illinois aud Wisconsin, was
hardly felt at St: Paul. The first kill.
Ing trpet, Of that year was on the night
Of the sixth Of October, at which date
corn; a.od potatoes awero fully ripe, and
the former nearly harvested"
In August last (1s63) i severe frost
! Waited; the Western .ad Middle States,
doing Einmepse damages to, the corn
CROP" From reports emaDstine 1s from
the Agricultural Department Of: the
}Smithsoniane Institute, it appears that
i.the.rarages of ths:=flost extended to
New York. = Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich
isan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minneso-
I:ta,- Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Thus it appears that Minnesota; 10 say
the least, is quite sas, exempt fronl.the
nvages Of frosts as the other Western
otates.&!*f:: 1;'s} 2i!ss:: Yss;j i...solIz
1t has been noticed that 4. greater
degree of cold is required to produce
1T rost in Nlianesota, than in places fur
ther east: A fall of the mercury which
! here would be harmless: to the tender
est vine, would be destructive. to. the
crops Of Illinois and Ohio .sss.s xs.:
p This'impunity to low temper.tare is
owing in part to the great vitality I of
the plants which mature in our short,
/ hot sammers, partly to the heat:ntain-
ing Nature of the soil, bat chiefly to the
fdtyoess Of the air.; which prevents that
lrapid radiation: which produces frost.
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