Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-08
CREDITABLE DISPLAY

OhEDll.ABLE DlSPLAY
THAT the Northern Pacific Co,zec,;o,,
Prores--1he Greatest Cereal Belt in the
Wortd-- PTddttcts Exhibited from Ecer1,
county from Lake Superior to the Mir
so"rt hirer--Atso from Erery State and
Territory from the Great Lake to the
Great Ocean.
Better late than never" and in fact the
GLOBE representative has been waiting until
the close of the greatest exposition ever held
IN the Northwest before attempting to men
ton the grand display made by the
land department of the Northern Pacific rail.
way. 1t is
NO EXAGGERAT1oN
to say that the collection shown to the puhl;c
by this great corporation was more visited and
more praised than any other display upon the
entire grounds.
In the first place, there is full display of
the most wonderful vegetable and cereal pro-
auctions raised along the line of that road
from NN''>1
LAKE SUPERIOR TO THE MISSOURI,
representing every county, organized and un-
organized, in both Minnesota and Dakota.
1t Is not many years since southern Minneso-
ia, from st. Anthony Falls to the Iowa line.
was regarded as being on the verge of the
frozen zone, but the unparalleled rapidity with
which the Northern Pacific country has
heen developed has turned new leaf4n the
ideas OF people.
THE HARVEST THIS YEAR
ana every previous year since the first
1arm was opened in the great north
land OF the extreme upper Mississippi valley,
mas demonstrated that for absolute certainty in
the harvesting Of No. l spring wheat every
year, 1t Is necessary to go northo the
FoRGY-FoURTH PARALLEL.
lake the present year as an example: In
southern Minnesota and northern Iowa and
Wisconsin the entire cereal crop has been al
most failure, and what few bushels tn tho
acre have been secured goes No. Q. No. g No d
and rejected. But on the line of the great
railway the harvest has been most abundant
ranging from
TWENTY-FIVE TO FORTY
bushels to the acre, and with scarcely bushel
grading below No. l, unless from gross careless
ness in the handling or from other special
causes.
ANOTHER FACT:
The display at present under consideration
demonstrates beyond the shadow of doubt
that the supposed unfertile belt between the
Red and Missouri rivers is fitted in all respects
to produce, rot only the smaller grains in won
derfnl abundance, but also Is unsurpassed in
growing vegetables of every kind and charac-
ter There no alkaline country" but one
broad, unbroken, uncultivated
HARVEST FIELD
awaiting the magic touch of the soiled hand of
stalwart labor, to call into life fields laughing
with the husbandman's promise of plenty.
The Imagination reaches forward into the near
future, and sees upon the prairies of Dakota.
IN the valley Of the Yellowstone and hupeino
close to the protecting
RooK-RIBBED SIDES
of the mountains of Montana the clustering
cottages of comfort, houses for the unhoused
poverty pinehed millions of the Eastern cities.
There is
NO POOR LAND,
and the nerve and muscle of the Genius al
Hard Workwill in the future demonstrate the
fact.
THE DISPLAY.
Some features of this great display will bea,
particularizing. The splendid showing from
Wadena county, in charge of the
HANDSOME HUsBANDMAN HUoKLEBERRY
OF the Wadena Tribune. was mentioned at
length yesterday. Yesterday afternoon while
wandering through the halls, the GLOBE man
halted in frontof Gatchelps stand (Which the
same has become celebrated) and discovered
the following card prominently pinned on his
grain exhibits
This collection of grain in the straw Will.
not entered TO-. any premium, the committee OF
| display of the kind in Agricultural hall,'
This speaks lOudlv NOT on1v tba AMI ~
prise of our newspaper friend, but also for til,
Northern Pacific railway which called
the country into life and use. Huckle
berry, come again. We will use you well
wADENA
was the only county which had special dis
play outside of the Northern Pacific space ex
cept Clay, and all that has been said of Wa
dena will apply with equal force to CLAY. I,
the general display of the Northern Pacifi
proper the
CEREAL SHOW
was especially fine. Wheat of every conceiy
able variety; oats with straw six feet in length
rye with straw eight feet in length
native nutritious grasses six fee
high; and mammoth vegetables which would
put the soil and climate of Iowa and Missouri
to the blush. Even the wicked Bismarck sends
down oats that would make Rarus weep with
oCoio VI ivy W gaze upon WneaC beautiful
white, hard, winter wheat; spring wheat brown
and plump as an Indian maiden's budding
bosom; corn with gigantic stalk
ranging upward from the bosom
of the earth which produced lit twelv.
stalwart feet into the air; wheat from Mon
tana, bright and pure as her own native silver
fruits from Oregon, Idaho and Washington
Territory, smiling at the passers filled with the
JUICY MELODY OF LUSCIOUS SWEETS.
And everything else that nature has scattered
80 bounteously throughout the length anc
breadth of the great Western empire called
| into active civilized life by the great Northern
thoroughfare-the Northern Pacific railway.
Even from the Red Lake reservation. one
hundred miles still north of the railway. there
Is beautiful display of Indian corn, fully de
veloped and beyond reach of the frost: while
from the budding manufacturing interests Of
the road we have sack of creamy -four char
acteristicly branded
FOUR ACES
(which beats full hand, you understand) from
gallant Frazer City. But why particularize
further? Minnesotians know the Northern
Pacific country. 1t is the right arm of our de
veloping commonwealth-the titman of the
litter, growing TO be the bully of the drove.
The Northern Pacific display was the finest by
all odds among the many fine exhibits of agri.