New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-30
friends IN Mankato and had ! pleasant
visit. We learned that
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II StaAeuO ~ tue ClLys Many
children chi had recent died, some fami.
lies losing several within 4 few days
Of each other. The Mankato journals,
however, say but little about It. If
deaths are recorded care Is taken TO
say nothing Of the cause Of them, the
purpose being to keep the ravages Of
the disease: as quiet as possible; but
that It is in and about the city there is
no doubt. Whether the public should
know about it OF not IS 4 question upon
which opinion may be divided. We
think however that danger Of eyery
kind should be pointed ont that all NAV
be on their guard.
This week harvest is getting under
way. The
are fair so far as we have seen. The
best grain fields we saw were in the
region of st. Peter. and the most de-
solate in Good Thunder. At this place
the storm made clean work in MANY
fields. 1t was very sad indeed to look
upon the clean swept field. We have
seen nothing like it since the'.hoppers'
left the country. There is consider.
able blight in the grain hereabouts;
but the farmers are in hope to have q
fair average after all. There is no
doubt, however, but that the farmer
must cease torely exclusively on his
wheat for a profit. The crop is I'M.
certain to say the least, even if the
soil is just right for it. 10 me, as an
observer, it becomes more and more
evident every year that our farmers
must change their method Of farming
to some extent. Some of the mistakes
of beginners we believe to be these.
l..Cnltivating too mach land. g.
Working the land under cultivation
too little. 3..Depending too mach upon
one thing year after year. 4--Too
much time given to raising grain and
not enough to stock. In cultivating
too much land, more machinery (which
is expensive,) is required, more help
is necessary, (which takes off the pro-
fit,) and the land is not sufficiently
worked. Here are these things to be
pondered. It pays to tcork the land
cultivated. Growing crops will gener-
ously reward the man who works them
thoroughly. It pays to manure the
wheat field. Every particle of fertil.
izing material should be gathered up
and used. What is worth doing at all
is worth doing we'll, is a good rule for
the farmer as it is for other people.
If a man can't cultivate forty acres
we'll he had better not try it. He should
work no more than can be thoroughly
and inexpensively cultivated. It
sounds big to say you have a hundred,
or hundred and twenty acres into
small grain; but it is more satisfactory
to have less acreage and a larger yield
to the acre. Let 1t be, not how many
acres but how much to the acre.
observe that there is more rye
raised in this region than there used
to be; and it is very good crop. Corn
looks well. Potatoes are promising a
fine crop. Oats will be pretty good.
The country, generally, is steadily i'm.
proving. Extending railway lines
gives the people nearer markets. In
this county good deal Of attention is
given to stock. horses, cows, hogs and
sheep. A good deal of the stock is
blooded. It is cheaper to raise good
stock than it is poor, but some farmers
do not act as though they knew it.
The towns along the railroads do not
seem to be growing very fast. Towns
will thrive when the country prospers,
Amber, Mimi, July "a, 1870.