Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-06
To 1dCePfiSerS.

Stock advertisements will hereafter be
inserted in the Monday issue of the GLOBE
Immediately following the reading matter
of the Horse department. In no other
way can stock be so cheaply or prominent
n ly advertised as by taking advantage of
this opportunity. Figures will be furnished
on application, and advertisements can
also occupy corresponding position in
the weekly issue, if desired.
Minnesota Stock Breeding IStdte-Lake
ELySian.
The August number of Wdlace'S Monthly,
contains a description of Lake Alysian
farm-the property of G. A. DeGraff-
from the pen of MARX Field" George B.
Hyatt), now on pilgrimage in the north
west, a small portion of it, with the pre-
face dwelling upon the advantages of
Minnesota as breeding state, we append:
Extending from east to west the whole
way across southern Minnesota, and en-
brRcing in its width the first three tiers of
counties north of the Iowa line, there is a
stretch of country which is very distinctly
marked by its peculiarities of topography,
of alluvial deposits, and of native tiera-a
stretch of country whose gently undulating
surface presents to the observing traveller
Kaleidoscope variety of dissolving views,
of which narrow forests, little prairies,
timber openings, lucent lakes, limpid
streams and pearly springs form the con-
stituent features; a stretch of country
whose black, deep soil differs from that of
northern Illinois almost soley in the fact
that it contains more sand than the latter.
and is consequently endowed with warm
er nature. by which it very largely COM
pensates for the evil tendencies of the long.
cold winters under which it annually lies.
The whole of this eminently fertile re-
gion is admirably adapted to stock farming
and dairy farming; and to those ends it is
now being rapidly and beautifully devel-
oped by a population of extraordinary
Intelligence, industry, enterprise and self
hood. Added to soil that, in excellent
quality and superintendent quantity, pro-
duces wheat, oats, timothy, clover and blue
grass, We find here climate highly pro-
motive of the health of man, beast and
vegetation-a climate whose atmosphere is
dry, pure, strongly oxygenated, and in
which there are no wet, sloppy winters; no
humid, lung-rasping, catarrh-breeding
winds. We also find here by the middle of
June forWardness of crops that would be
truly surprising to the Missourian or to
the 1llinoisan, and that fully justifes the
opinion that these lands can be made to
produce the most generous yields of corn
of an early-ripening variety.
In the midst of this northern garden of
delights-this grand mosaic of lake, river,
prairie and woodlands situated the
bright little village of GAINESVILLE, Mime
sofa, one mile south of which lies the Lake
Elysian farm, which derives its paradisic
name from one Of the prettiest and most
richly bordered sheets of water on the con-
tinent OF America.
1t was in 1862 that the tWelve-year-old
boy, @. A. DeGraff, son of the great rail-
way builder, Col. A. DeGraf, drove across
the country, in southerly direction from
st. Paul, in two-horse wagon, travelling a
distance Of eighty miles, and having locat-
ed LOO acres of land, bought it from the
United States on a sealed bid. Such was
the origin of the farm in question.
The great new northwest was then just be-
ginning to emerge from its primitive wild
ness. Minnesota had but ten miles of
railroad, and the vicinity of the site of
GAINESVILLE was occupied chiefly by Involves
and Winnebago Indians. The work of
opening raw regions was by no means so
easy as at the present time, and no i'm
provements were commenced on the juve-
nile DeGrafFs purchase until 1869. In that
year he erected upon that purchase a neat
frame residence, which to-day stands as
honorable an achievement of the kind as
ever was put to the credit of lad of nine
teen. In 1870 the completion of the
Winona & st. Peter railway through
GAINESVILLE gave a wonderfully quickening
impulse to the progress of southern
gopherdom; and in few years from that
event Lake EIysian farm, under the touch
of the genius and industry of its young
proprietor, presented itself, as it does at
this moment, with the full. equipage and
IN all the adornments of a great breeding
establishment. Meantime its era had been
widened till its bounds enclosed over 200
acres, which, being conveniently plated
with pastures, paddocks, meadows and
grain t1elds, were given to the meinten-
ance of the choicest breeds of horses,
cattle, sheep and hogs, and near the centre
of which are two elegant residences and
half dozen large, snowy well-built barns.
The Kidtcay Stable in the Grand Circuit.
The past week has witnessed the open
ing Of the Grand Circuit at Cleveland,
and as much interest is manifested by all
classes of our citizens in the welfare of
Com. Kittson's string of trotters therein
engaged, resume of their performances
at the inaugural meeting Is appended.
Fanny Witherspoon waa started in one
race Only the free for all. with St Julien
Trinket and Edwin Thorne, as competitors
comprising three invincibles of the trot-
ting turf. The first heat was left for st.
Julien and Edwin Thorne to contest for,
Witherspoon being driven an easy mile in
the rear. The heat was won by Thorne
hnlf laracE&h in adznrno of e. LII