Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-26
AUSTIN MOWER COUNTY MINI WEDNESDAY DECEMBER
AUsTIN,s ADVANTAGES. A

AUsTIN's ADVANTAGES.
The Gem City of Southern Minpesota Pc,
culiarly Fortunate IN Being Surrounded
bya Fine Country. sHr, 81 EzfF*2
We CLIP the following from the Pioneer
Press: Of Dec. %, Its Christmas time. and
yet Southern Minnesota continues to enjoy
the most delightful Of weather. Our street
sprinkler kept our dusty streets in con-
2dition until the 18TH inst, when the gen
tie showers relieved it Of its work. 1t IS
a bonanza to the farmers hereabout,
whose cattle and other stock form SO
large basis of our prosperity. We here
rise to remark that for stock and dairy
products Mower county takes the lead as
in other respects. 1t is dellgt to the eye
to see It's fine herds of high grade and
Thoroughbred stock which is beginning
to abound in this vicinity. One can find
here all breeds of cattle and horses which
are valuable. Large herds of famous
Holsteins, so noted for their immense
weld of milk, hundreds of the square
built and massive ShOrthorns whose beef
IS unexcelled, together with the Jerseys,
that are said to give clear cream, and the
Devons, so profitable for an'all purpose"
breed, and the Polled Angus, such as are
seen in some of our best herds, and the
other we'll known classes. Farmers all
over this section are taking pride in their
thoroughbred cattle, seeing more and
more clearly that it is true economy to
produce them and eXpel the natives. In
horses thereis the most notable improve
ment. A car load of our high grades was
recently shipped to Boston, so fully were
the merits of our production demonstrate
ed to an Eastern buyer. One can find any
kind of horse, from the English draught,
or the Norman, or the Clydesdale, to the
Hambletonian, and the finest breeds of
roadsters. The fact is, our annual county
fair, for year or two, has been perfect
eye-opener to. those who little realized
before. the
WEALTH OF OUR STOCK INDUSTRIES.
Improvements in hogs and sheep and
poultry are also gong on at rapid rate:
All these developments in our community
aid materially, to our prosperity as q city.
The better class of immigrants are dis
covering the fertility of our soil and the
unexcel]ed conditions for successful
dairying and stock raising. Our climate,
soil and inhabitants all combine to make.
this the home of the COW. We can do
better with the COW and the horse and
the hog than we ever could at wheat rals-
ing. This year has been a prosperous
one for dairy Cream is to-day 2255ctsss,s
an inch at the creameries. Butter has
Kept good price during the summer.
Our ordinary dairy farmers report month
ly returns during the summer from their
cream ana butter amounts to from $25.
to $75. Our grasses are noted for their
excellence. Our soil and climate are
adapted to corn raising, as our we'll flied
cribs testify at the present time, Settlers
who come in here from less favored Sec
tions find here freedom from the rigors
and deprlvations Of more northern ell
mate, where wheat gets frosted and corn
is rarity; find access to the great mar
kets of the world, which those hundreds
of miles west of US can never enjoy; find
the advantages of mingling W ith the very
best soc1sl elements, gathered from East
and West; find freedom from the hard
ships of pioneer life, which prematurely
bring gray hairs and broken constitutions
find our land broken up and our roads
completed and our school houses
BUILT AND PAID FOR,
and our ailway stations located conven.
len tly; find golden opportunities to get
rapidly into the choicest breed of cattle
and stock with little additional expense;
find land at reasonable prices all readyto
smile with rich harvests as soon as it is
tickled with the plow and harrow; in a
word, find just the spot where they can
settle down and make home which will
be pleasant, and where they can farm at
profit. Mower county to-day has six.
teen railway stations within her borders
and there Is not an acre of her fertile soil
that is not of easy access to one of these
points, This county is we'll watered. for
we are on the height of land of South
ern Minnesota, and in every township
creeks and rivers run toward every point
of the compass. No wonder that Austin,
in the midst of such surroundings, IS grow
ing so rapidly. Some might say that we
were having "boom," but we know that
1t IS simply our normal growth. The
coming of the Kansas City road to this
point and the opening Of the South St.
Paul stock yards have given new i'm
petus to our cattle and hog market.
Tuontv .car loads ehi nrp6 from here in a