The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-09-17

burning lake and great scarcity Of
water-if he doesn't make haste to re-
form and stop lying.
2. To the best Of our information
there has been no frost in Minnesota
up to the present date-the middle Of
September-to injure anything except
the most delicate howeror tender vege-
table. Frosts do not come early in Sep
tember. The June frost referred to
must have been confined to I'D. C.'s"
own garden-or imagination. TO be
sure, Minnesota has thunder storm 8
and wind and occasional hail, and what
State does not have them? The COM
parison with California earthquakes
is too nonsensical to deserve notice.
3. Whatcould be more outrageously
false? In no place in the world is
there better sleighing, the whole win
ter through, than in Minnesota. This
is matter Of general remark, especi.
ally on the: part Of visitors, who are
surprised to find such delightful
sleighing - hard, unoothly-packed
snow-week after. week and month
after month.
4. I'D. c." must be as ignorant as
he is mendacious, o. he would know
that there are plenty Of places where
mosquitoes and insects Of all kinds
are very much worse than they are in
Minnesota. Aostfpeople manage to
protect themselves very. efectually
against mosquitoes, the most trouble
some ofall the pegb he refers to, with
outany great troutl tle. Wecanalmost
fancy we gee ID. c." dashing across
the prairie. pursued by a half dozen
mosquitoes and fly. Or two, and BEL
lowing like. one Of hH own CATTLE
Poor fellow! What a tender plant
he must be Wilted if exposed to
the sun, and nipped BY a June frost;
chased by gnat and devoured by a
mosquito; scared by q clap Of thun-
der until his shaking knees make him
think there must be a California earth
quake right under him, and afraid to
take his wife out at night to see the
comet
5. At intervals, parts Of Minneso-
ia have been visited by grasshoppers,
but 50 have parts of the State of Cali
fornia to which he makes such favor
able reference, and there is scarcely a
State in the Union that has not been,
at one time OF another. devastated by
them:: This year Kansas and Ne
braka have been greater suf.
ferers than Minnesota while Iowa,
Missouri and Illinois have had the
crops taken on large tracts of country.
Why, then, make 60 unfavorable an
exception of this one State? In
Stearns county and in many of the
counties around, no injury has been
received from grasshoppers since 1857
seventeen years ago.
6. If ID. c. is 50 much disgusted
with Minnesota, why doesn't he leave
it and go back to the Maine fog-bank
out of which he was digged ? Min
nesota could probably get along with
out him and all grumblers like him.
The people here are generally pretty
we'll satisfied with the State. Taking
the year 1874, for instance, they find
that while the farmers of Minnesota
had abundant rain, Kentucky, nli-
nois. Ohio, Missouri, Kansas and Texas
suffered greatly from drouth. In ad-
dition to grasshoppers, Kansas, Iowa,
and Missouri was afflicted with the
chinch bug, which kept clear of Min
nesota while Virginia, North Caro-
lima, West Virginia, Ohio and Indi--
ana were among the other States in
which the wheat crop was injured by
this destructive insect. The report of
the Department Of Agriculture for
June is authority for the statement
that the reduction of the acreage of the
wheat in Maine and the ueighboring
States was lowing to the lingering Of
winter in the lap of spring, which
c@used q portion Of the land intended
for wheat to be planted in other crops"
"The effect Of frost in clay Soils"
continues the report could not bs
utterly overcome by subsequent favor
able weather" In partb of New York
"lste-soxn wheat was, nearly ruined
and has been largely plowed up OF
intersown with other grain" While
reporting the condition and prospects
of "spring pastures" the delightful clim-
ate of ID. c." State Of Maine is Incl
dentally referredto: "The only State
in New Englandin which the average
condition (of pastures) is below 100
is Maine, Sc; the cause indicated is
winter-k;zing." Pastures in Minneso-
ia are up to the average, and in the
matter of stock raising, this State is
above the average. Cows: "The
lowest condition, Is per cent. below,