St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-03
IMMIGRANTS POURING IN.
The Tide of People Rushing on to the
Land of Promise.
This Years Acreage More Than Double
That of Last.
How Dakota's Schoolmarms At
tract the Hardy Pioneers.
The Work and Rapid Increase OF the
Farmers Alliance.
Special to the Globe.

OAOONs
HURON, OAK, April 1.-The present
prominence of Dakota before the eyes of
the whole nation is not likely soon to wane,
if one may judge by the abundant indica-
lions of steady progress being made in
material prosperity by the agriculturalists
of Central and South Dakota.
1t is an axiom that if agriculture pros
pers in any country then the happi-
ness of its populace, so far as
regards the possession of material
good, is absurd. In no successful agricul-
tural area is there to be found any of those
indications of want and penury which are
attendant on conditions of comparative
prosperity in those communities where man
ufacturing or mining prevail as the princi-
pal industry. 1t is no presumption to state
that in No portion of the habitable globe do
the elements necessary to prosperity
in agriculture exist so abundantly as in
Dakota, and the incoming tide of immi-
grants already surging into the territory by
every available palace-car route, indicate
that the intelligence of the East is fast
filling up this wonderful favored land, and
decade hence the story of the almost
magical transformation of desert into
RICHLY CULTIVATED STATE,
with the most advanced ideas of civilization
embodied in the constitution, the laws and
the institutions evolved therefrom will be
told in every land in Christendom. A
feature of Dakota's attraction to the hardy
pioneers, including the schoolmarms, who
at present people her Yerdant .prairies,
and whose homes dot the beautiful land
scape in every direction, is the economy in
time with which the operations of working
the land and sowing the seed
can be executed. The rainfalls during
spring are uniformly of such character
that they form no impeachment to the
progress of the work pressing upon the
farmer in early spring, strikingly contrast
ing with Illinois, Iowa and some other
states in this particular.
There are indications that the acreage
put in crop this year will be more
than double that of last season, while
preparations are being made which
point to the breaking up of far greater
area of wild land than has been the case
during any two preceding years. Not only
have resident breeders had large sales of
horses, but in every town there have been
one or more dealers who have each i'm
ported from one to six carloads of horses;
and which outside parties have brought
in shipments, and all have been disposed of
rapidly at good prices. The grand total i'm
ported, inclusive Of those brought in by
ENuGRANTS,
must be formidable enough to
place an empire under pillow. The vim
with which business men rustic about is
duplicated by the air of grim determination
which the grangers wear as with all alac-
rity they go ahead making their prepare
tons for sowing and planting larger crops
with greater efficiency than ever before.
While it is impossible to declare with any
degree of accuracy what the acreage Of
xx-hn no 80 20 rAosv
that there will be a reduction as compared
with that of 1885. Flax will be sown to a
very much larger extent than last year,
and it is possible the 1885 record will be
trebled. Barley having grown in favor
as feed mainly from the experience Of
last fall and winter, will be sown more
largely. The work accomplished by the
Farmers Alliance during the past year has
decidedly strengthened its hold upon the
people. and many who heretofore kept aloof
will swell its ranks this season, meanwhile
the number of alliances is increasing rap
idly. One of the most encouraging signs
of the times in South Dakota is the impor-
tatiOn of fine class of stock. Already
there are representatives from many of the
most popular breeds in
DAKoTA'S HERDS,
and the place OF the buffalo is now held by
fat sleek herds of grade and in many cases
thoroughbred Hereford, Shorthorn Holstein-
FreiSian, Devon, Attorney and jersey
cattle. In horses the Norman SEEMS to be
held in the highest esteem and many farm
ers are buying teams from $500 to $3.50 Of
high-grade Norman-Percheron. The Clyde
has high place in tic esteem of others as
draft team, and the earlier importation of
plugs are fast being relegated to the
shades of deserved obscurity.
The ''shacks' that in the days of it's
experimental era abounded in the terri
tory, are, DOW, that faith in the boundless
futute of Dakota has been fully estab-
liShed, being supplanted by as
large and elegant residences on the
purses of the respective owners of the
farm can afford. and it may be pardonable
to predict that should there be no wide
spread national calamity the record OF
Dakota and especially the central and south
portions the present year will be grander
even than enthusiasts expect.