St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-11
NOR EH DAKOTA.
Hts Climate and Healthfuluess the
Best i'm the World.

In no part of the Union can man with
moderate capital, or with only his energy
and strong arms for a beginning so soon
Of course, there are incidents and varia-
tons of fortune here, as elsewhere. But
the basis of general prosperity is the natural
| character of country, its productions, its
climate and it's soil. There are drawbacks
in North Dakota, as elsewhere, but in the
great factors which make human existence
possible and favor a dense populations;
those of ability to produce human food,
both animal and vegetable. and climatic in
| fluence on longevity or length of life the
! Red river valley and North DAKOTA possess
to greater extent than any part of the con-
tlnent. At the bottom of the social economy,
the world over, is to be found the farmer.
Producing those things which directly
sustain life, he. if any, is the aristocrat.
The climate of North Dakota, in win
ter bright, dry and cold, is exceedingly
pleasant, and its only effect is to stimu-
late activity in business and the ordinary
avocations of life. Though it is cold, the
absence of humidity, as indicated by the
signal service records, causes it to be
| unnoticed and unfelt to the degree noted in
tn humid South and East.
The characteristics of the climate of a
country have the most important in
fuence on its productions, and the cold,
dry, solid winters of North Dakota give
| it most important advantages over other
sections. Heat. while the source of all
life, if in excess of the natural demands
Of the man or plant. is an active cause
OF deterioration and decay. Man and
our domestic animals thrive best in cold
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of different countries. Cold weather,
even if uncomfortable. invigorates and
builds up, as shown by the fact that in
every city in the United States the death
rate is invariably least in the coolest
month, and as surely the greatest in the
warmest month. In st. Louis, Mo-, for
instance, during the month of July, the
death rate increases at a certain ratio for
every degrees increase in temperature above
750. The infant mortality in the hot
months is terrible-it is indeed slaughter
of the innocents." Dakota and Minnesota,
north Of latitude 45, are the only regions
east of the Rocky mountains where there is
no appreciable increase of deaths in the
summer. Cold weather favors healthy and
natural secretiOnS in all the bodily organs.
Warm weather has the opposite effect.
This is exemplified, for instance, by the
death rate in torrid Texas. one in fOrty-six
per annum; in cool Minnesota, one in 1877
per annum. The showing is still more
favorable for Dakota. People will never
suffer as much from cold in Dakota as in
any one of the Central OF Eastern states; it
is too dry in Dakota for rapid radiation of
heat from the body. The heat of summer
IN North Dakota, averaging 81 , bears y
closer relation to that of the most prosper
Gus and densely populated sections of
the Old WOrld-Great Britain, North
ern France. Belgium and North
Germany-than any other part Of
the United States. In England the sum-
mer temperature will average 81 degrees;
in Scotland 81 degrees, in Belgium 81 de-
grees and in North Germany 60 degrees.
In these European countries is where the
best horses, cattle and sheep, wheat. oats,
barley and roots are grown. 1t is too cold
for Indian corn. In Southern Europe the
average summer temperature rises to IS and
above, and the corn belt begins, but no one
thinks of going there to buy the Norman,
PercherOn or the Clydesdale horse. No
one thinks of buying the Short Horn,
Hereford, Devon or ''DOddie'' in sunny
Italy. It's too warm; they don't grow
there; yet Italy is cooler in summer than
our ''cOrn belt.' The Red river valley,
with its black SOIL full of ''phosphates"
and ''alkalies," would not produce the
famous No. hard wheat. oats, fax, rye.
barley and other small grains of such fine
quality and in such quantities if its sum-
mer averaged 81 degrees instead of "a de-
greeS. The summer iSotherm of 81 de-
greeS inevitably limits the growth of that
famous grade. No. 1 hard Fife, to the coun-
try north of latitude 1850.