The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-06-18
1oil60hTunAL STATISTICS.


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lsR Dodge, Statis.iesn Of the De
parsmens Of Agriculture, read a paper
At Atlanta, Ga, May Is, entitled
"Practiosl H,nts From Agricultural
sta,istiss,'' from which We make the
following extracts:
rH1 sRIAD1Hs OF QUA STATISTICAL
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Whsn'ws consider that less than .
:.,third'et the area Of The States, aud
less than fifth Of the entire DOMAIN
Of the United States, Is mapped into
farms, and remember that Of this farm.
area only one.fourth is titled or moved !;
md whom we further reflect that the
syyAarsss. yield POI, acre could be doubled
y if The many could be brought up to
tbs plane of tho few in tho practice OF
= intensive culsurs, then We begin to re-
,aiize, aha, numbers our country is Ca
psble Of feeding, and what waste of toll
and effort. comes from neg lect Of the
economic lessons taught BY the stats.
tisssof scientific agriculture.
We know now that our wheat oocu.
, pies aa area less than the surface of
South Carolihs, and if the yield should
equal that Of England half Of that
acreage would suffice: We know Of
our national crop, maine, which grows
from Oregon to Florida, aud yearly
wavea over ! broader field than al the
cereals beside, that it covers territory
MT larger than the Old Dominion,
md might produce its .mpleat stores
Within narrower limits th6n tho present
Boundaries Of Virgins. Tho posaso
crop could grow in tho area. Of Dsh-
ware, though yielding less thsnra hun
drsd bushels per acre the barley for
our brewing reqaires lesa th h. the srsa
oea halt dozen eaanties; and the veed
Of solase, sufficient 70 glut our own AID
European markets, is grown, on the
area of 4 county. twenty milaa, sqaane.
FOLLY OF FOREIGN DEP1NDERos:
Min.eeot. is only happy when the
people I6f ursae Britain 40 soDpsssd
e be in dagger ':' II 1s5taitv,tios. Tit
danger is greatly over-estimatek S%A-
tistics viii show that 10 some yesrs but
three per cent. of our wheat export,
and but trifing proportion. in any
season, can be sold to any except sub
jects of Great Britain. On one six
teenth the area of that island is grown
in good year one hundred million
bushels of.wheat, in an average season
ninety millions aud in fifteen years,
from 1858 to 1872 inclusive, the de.
fciency made good by importation was
fraction less than sixty.six millions
per ahnr1m. Gould home culture be
extended to meet this demand, the to-
tai breadth required would be equal to
one.ninth the surface of Minnesota.
An increase 10 the average yield Of
wheat in France from fifteen bushels
TO eighteen, BY small advance in cul-
ture, would fully equal the British de-
tloisncy, ,s~as recently stated BY tho
VOL. kao1iii st.tistieas, MI. james
Card. RnaGiss, With her broad and
cheap ,erss, elsa stands nesr to sonpete
fer this deficiency. Minnesota, ns.nj
while, a. her crop is maturing, can
na%er ascertain. whether the want viii
b. forty millions OF ninety, or whether
tbs home Price WIN BE- 50 cents or 81,
or the Ultimate result debt or compe.
tsnce. And yet 70per cent. Of tho
cultivated area of Minnesota is put in
wheat, ands75 per cent. Of her people
are engaged in its cultivation; 8 per
cest. in sending it to market; large
proportion Of its IA per cent. Of me.
ohauics and manufacturers are building
mills aad grinding wheat and its 81
per cent. Of professional men OK.
pecs much Of their income from wheat.
There are reasons why whest should be
TONI osarily grown there, but depend.
ence upon foreign markets, evidently
felt by many, for !. permanent and in.
ereasine demand, is shown by statistics
10 be foolish and futile: The home
nsrket is the only reliable and perm.-
hently valuable one tor this ceres, : aud
the nsarsr to the p1aoe Of growth ths
sursr and larger The benefit derived.