Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-07-04

sweet potatoes of fair md ii
considerable quanti ties. have raised
well sripened peanuts several bushels.
IA did not raise them for profit Toma-
toes wore not at I'LL killed ly the frost
OF last Sept mber. They sold at TWEEN SS
tY-fYe cents 9 bushel retail ID the ST. st.
Paul mark et till the first of October.
generally have tomatoes is abundance
till the middle of October ], or later.
nearly always plant my first sweet
corn the last week Ia April have
planted it earlier; and q never had good
seed to rot in the ground, and never
had it seriously injured by frost but
once, and then. il came on and made IS
moderate crop. / have sold sweet corn
BY the wagon load from the 9th to the
middle Of July and in October have
had green corn for the table July 4 and
summer squashes, also, from seed plant
ed III the open ground. Last real, &
luckily 4 had no sorghum. raised il
five years In succession, on the same 4
ground, without manure, and neYer had
it injured by frost. The blades were
killed once or twice before 7 cut it, but i
no harm was done. The syrup and
seed always paid me. My best crop
was 216 gallons of good syrup from ex
actly one acre. I have mentioned a
few OF the products of more southern
regions that do well here. 5@ .s Il.
Dakota is our younger sister and lies
right by the side Of Minnesota and ex-*.
tends some further south, butno further
north. The great farming regions OF
Minnesota and the greater part Of the
vast territory of Dakota are just as
near alike as possible, in climate, soil
and productions. There are churches
in the villages, and there are school
houses in the country in which the peo-
pie have preaching at present, but the
man who mas the idea of God in his
brain will find affairs for worship all
over the prairie. To me it seems liter
ally a 'Garden of the Lord" I cannot
describe the feeling of exhilaration and
elevation I felt while driving rapidly
over the long, rolling swells OF bound
less prairie. e is not all level, but it
is level enough. There are some beau
tiful streams, and the natural roads ara
the finest ever saw.
Donot take family to Dakota unless
you have some money; and do not take
q homestead to far from neighbors.
Close settlements are best, for society,
for schools, and for help in time of sick
ness and trouble. Don't let winter
catch you unprepared for it; it may set
in earlier than you expect. The fact
that poor family can get along for a
while in sod house, and with hay for
fuel, is great thing Many good wom-
en- have cooked and baked all winter
with hay. A large box, full Of the rolls,
or twists, stands near the stove, and
neat people do not have much litter.
Some who are able enough to buy coal
and wood burn hay to save money.
There is fortune for the man who shall
invent q machine for compacting hay
and straw into sort of stove wood.
know there is some grumbing all
over Dakota. They think the price OF
wheat is lower than it should be-. But
groceries and other goods are cheap, too.
I have heard my father say that after he
had sc tiled in the great woods of Muskin-
gum County, Ohio, and had cleared some
land there, wheat brought but twenty
five cents per bushel; and I heard moth
er say that she paid fifty cents a pound
for coffee in GAINESVILLE, and fifty cents
yard for calico.