Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-22

less than IS, 5000 acres under cultivation.
One portion of this property, which is
owned by Messrs. Grandin and Dali
rymple, measuring 1900 acres, produced
$4,000 bushels Of wheat, giving an
average of nearly twenty-five bushels
per acre. Another patch of 40 acres in
oats produced 1900 bushels, or an
average of over eighty bushels of 49,
lbs. to the bushel.
A fair idea of the fertility and progress
Of Minnesota can be formed from the
following statement, supposed to have
been inscribed on pyramid of Mime
sofa wheat at the Philadelphia exhibit
ton:
"No. l Minnesota wheat, 81 lbs to
the bushel; the best spring wheat pro-
duced in America. It commands a
higher price by Gig ht cents bushel than
any other wheat. Forty million bushels
of this wheat was produced in Mime
sofa in 1877. The -four from it is grad
ed considerably higher than any other
in the American market. Minnesota
has larger milling interest and pro-
duces more -four than any other state in
the Union. Her four hundred and five
-four mills, with their one thousand i've
hundred and eleven run of stone, are
capable of grinding her crop of last year
into eight million barrels of flour; or her
expected crop of 1878, of six million
bushels, into twelve million barrels
worth, at the present price at the mills,
the enormous sum of seventy-ive million
dollars"
Personal "reminiscences often illustrate
even better than statistics the growth
OF country or state, and the following
little sketch of district of Minnesota
now the site of thriving farms-at the
time when we, in this country, were
holding our great exhibition of 1851, is
interesting, as anecdotes of childhood
are to hard youth or full-grown man
hood: "The buffalo were in droves of
countless thousands, aud covered the
prairie as far as the eye could reach.
We had at times to make our way
through them, scattering them as we
proceeded. They were herded in places
as thickly as droves Of cattle are ever
seen in passing through the streets of a
crowded city. Now not single animal
is to be found till you reach the distant
far west of the Missouri"
Minnesota is not only wheat and
grain producing country, but it has large
grazing interests. In 1877 it produced:
Tons Of wild hay, 993, 40; tons of cult
waited hay $4,000; number of sheep,
203, sos; product of wool, pounds, 664,
900; number tf mich cows, 200,627;
pounds of butter IL, 1896, 900; pounds of
cheese, l, 100000:
Tho following figures, exclusive of
those we have already given, fairly
summarize the agricultural products for
the year 1877: The total product of all
crops and micellaneous productions for
1877-exclusive of those items hereto
fore given under the tile of the grazing
interest''--is as follows: Wheat, 100000
600 bushels; oats, 1858, 900; corn, H.
1921, 900; potatoes, 100000; barley,
1895, 900: rye, 200,S3O; buckwheat,
l36, l70; grand total OF seven crops, A..
867, 1000 bushels, worth at home sixty
million dollars.
Another most important business in
Minnesota is the lumber trade. For the
year 1876 no less than 554, 100000 feet
Of timber were cut and prepared from
the vast forests OF the north Mississippi
districts; the value of this work being
over three million sterling. In addition
to these industries, copper, iron, coal,
slate, lime and building stone are found
in various localities. Everything, in
short, that is necessary to the success of
great state appears to have been ready
to hand.
To Englishmen the question of climate
is most important. It is satisfactory,
therefore, to find that with this almost
tropical abundance and plenty the
climate is healthy and invigorating.
On this point writer says:
"The dryness Of the air, the character
Of the soil, which retains no stagnant
pools to send forth poisonous exhala-
tions, the universal purity of its water,
the beauty of its scenery, and the almost
total absence of fog or mist, the brillian-
cy of its sunlight, the pleasing success.
sion of the seasons, all conspire to give
Minnesota climate of unrivalled So
lubrity, aud to make, this a home of
Joyous, healthy, prosperous people, strong
in physical, intellectual and moral capa-
bilities. And while the chilly, damp