Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17

cooperate, We argue that the prod ices can
make il pay to do 40. Tho Chicago Mer.
chants Exchange, il u cooperative building.
1t cost hundreds OF thou ,ands Of dollars.
Herel men traffic in the produce Of the
country-wheat, corn, oats, barley. whisky,
&c. The buyers and sellers meet here daily.
and save journeys to various parts Of the
city, by 10 doing.
The Chicago stock yards, are also another
instance of cooperation for the economical
sale Of the farmers merchandise. Here
upon land, that less than forty years ago, be-
longed to the government, IN the largest
cattle market Of the world. The
eastern buyer here NETS the western cattle
man and both are a~vvsntaged by the sys-
tenn: In the immediate vicinity Of the
stock yards, are the slaughter and packing
houses. These also combine the interests
of the producer, the packer and the con-
sumer. We describe them in tile hope Of
suggesting facts to our farmers which may
be beneficial in their work.
Formerly pork slaughtering was the
work of winter, but modern science has es-
tablished the fact that hogs can be alaught-
cred as .cheaply in July, US in January.
The modern packing house 10 an ice house
of immense dimensions. Step within, but
mind, You button up your coat, as you do.
90. Note the walls-four feet Of solid ma
sonry.. The sun never heats those walls.
In this building are stored thousands of
tons of ice. A polar bear would luxuriate
here, from years end to years end. Here
are the carcasses of 1000 swine, warm with
life this morning. They are stiff and cold
now-are making irto English breakfast
most saleable form of pork.
The temperature here is u~nchanpe-
able from years end to years end.
There is no guess work about this
business. The meats are cooled here
IN July as IN January. Is there naught sug-
gestlVe to the Dakota farmer III this. Sees
ne not how he may hold fresh meats killed
and frozen 10 winter, away into the next
summer packed 10 an ice house. We be-
lleve the day not distant when the farmer
Will regard the ice house as heIng as neces-
safy an adjunct ofthe farm as the granary.
Here the milk may he cooled-the butter
stored, and held for months interchangeable.
Having suggested this topic we leave it for
your thanking 10 speak q word In favor of
our much abused climate.
The ice crop is a sure one In this latitude
and never was destroyed by g~rasshoppers.
While our soils are frozen and Jour roads are
as solid as rock, the soils Of the south and
not very far south either, are unfrozen, wet
and muddy. Their roads are generally
moist. in winter. Their soils are leached
and washed by the pouring rams of that
period and every plowed slope is guttered
by running water and the fertility of their
field Impoverished. As a consequence all
cultivated uplands are speedily exhausted,
while the bottom lands are exceeding fertile
with y stolen wealth. This is why there is
such a demand for fertilizers inthose states.
Would you exchange your dry bracing air
for their humid, agne bearing atmosphere,
your firm frozen roads, for their miry mud
dy ones-your soil IS interchangeable from
November to April as the granite rock, for
theirs leached and impoverished by the
copious winter rains of their climate. We
have not only these advantages, but grea-
ter-for the frost which annually hardens
our soil, also reaches down deep into our
subsoils and brings up with its coming
out" the phosphates and salts of the lower
soils. while it disintegrates and diesolves
the sands and mineral substances into avail.
able plant food. Winter oeteriorates the
unfrozen soil while it %renovates the hard
frozen nj
Let US think over these subjects in their
various phases. AZ connected with the sue.
cessful development OF our territory. Let
us apply the best skilled labor to be had for
money, in the translation Of our products
into merchandise. Let US take advantage
of all the resources of Dull climate, and with
a willing hand, a we'll stored mind and an
eye Watchful for winning every advantage,
and ere long, farm palaces will arise upon
our prairies, equalling the best of Illinois
or Wisconsin. The natural resources are
bere-the developing those resources Is our
work. Let us first get our heads right and
the hand work will be vastly lessened and
the success incomparably greater. There
is room yet higher up"
Ladies and gentlemen, we have written
this paper. not as q treatise upon any given
subject, but 10 suggest thought. Thought
precedes labor. Practical thought
enables the workman to labor
practically. We believe that the
numerous points touched upon suggest the
true course for the profitable development of
Dakota's grassy lande. The thought which
we have endeavored to impress most fully,
is the necessity for skilled labor in whatever
direction we advance. If we would profit
ably produce butter, we must have skilled
labor. The same is true of cheese, pepper
mint oil, brooms, &c. This is encouraging
to the young man OF woman without capital.
They can easily acquire the necessary skill
and then their labor sells for a good price.
1t is encouraging to the producer, the home.
steader, for j, brings his products into mar
ket at rs profitable a rate, as the produce OF
the high priced lands of the east. 1t is en-
couraging all around, for it promises the sue
c%essful, profitable development of our terri
tory and the accumulation of wealth by our
farmers. Dakota will rank with the older,
richer states in a few more decades and her
wealth will mainly flow from her grasses.
MEAT MARKET,