St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-17

! NhCIC JilC NY PAFS
| down endwise, is an improvement oyer
any muddy creek that ever flowed. Be-
| sides, the water Obtaiued BY q flowing
| well is Just salty enough to be extremely
| agreeable to stock. and does away with
giving dry salt; and they thrive on it
much better than any other water. SO
| II the man in charge has short memory
| about sailing the animals, the flowing
water is sufficient.
What is Dakota winter? A Dakota
wintcris
AN INSURANCE OFFICE,
! opened by nature to guarantee good
crops. The deeper the frost the greater
| the certainty of an abundant harvest.
Deep freezing is sure antidote for
| drought
When nature issues the highest grade
| insurance policy to the granger, she
| sends the frost down about ten feet, so
it will not get out till about August. A
| policy of this kind is good for forty
| bushels to the acre. When nature puts
| her fist to one of her best policies, and
| goes clear down, no matter how hot and
| parching the sun the crop keeps in a
| growing and vigorous condition from
| the GOODNESS and moisture of the frost
| below.
| l have seen eight steady weeks OF
| drOuth fail to reduce general average.
| VI course there are spots and StreakS
| where individuals have been damaged
by hail or a heavy storm, but no general
| failure has ever taken place in Dakota
Or the Red river valley. Can more, or
as much, be said of any other country?
Some people pretend to say long,
cold winter is drawback, because you
can't work out doors the year round. Or
all the objections that could be thought
of this is the poorest. Finding fault
with a country where man cannot
only make a living, but get rich. by
working six months in the year, and
HAVE THE OTHER SIX
| to sit in the house, 60 visiting, OF in
which to study and improve his mind. l
should say this feature has an attraction
and should place the country at high
| premium, where so much money and
rest both can be obtained in year. If
| the climate is eXtravagant in some
ways, it is economical in others. There
are no changes in the soil by reason Of
heat and moisture like there are in some
states farther south. A fence post will
last In the ground an indefinite length
of time without rotting. have seen a
tamarack post which has stood in the
ground twenty-five years not show the
slightest decay. A pine plank will lay
on the ground fifteen years be-
fore giving out. 1t takes years
for vegetation to rot. The reason
being, the ground is cool and subject to
so few changes in temperature that fer
mentatiOn is very slow to take place.
You don't have to build fence over
every year OF two, or, because by the
time you get line of posts set and the
menced at first is rOtted off. A straw
stack will last long time before rOtting
down; time don't seem to rot the straw,
but cure it; so stock really likes it bet
ter than new straw. have seen horses
turn away from fresh straw stack to
eat at one three years old. The climate
has the same effect on straw that
AGE HAS ON WHISKY;
instead of r0tting and moulding, ftcures
and improves, and is the first choice of
the honest and intelligent animal. Is it
hardship or glorious privilege to
have good long time i'll which to take
it easy? Regular old ease and comfort;
those are the only words that will ex-
press sitting In the house in cold
weather. There is something wrong
with man when he grumbleS over an
opportunity to sit still and have good
time.
One highly eminent and sensible
writer and philosopher, who has studied
and travelled around the world enough
to know something, says: Long win
ter evenings are the mother OF clvlilZa-
ton" This doctrine and condition
sounds the key note Of Dakota. 1t not
only produces sure and abundant crops,
but the climate is equally calculated to
develop
NOBLE MEN AND WOMEN
and build up pure and happy homes.
Deep freezing not only inSures crop,
but expands the head and the heart. 1t
is no egotiSm OF self-cOnceit to make
these statements. The facts are, when
nature gets behind anything it has to
move. The virtue and merit is in the
climate, and man is only the recipient
of great advantages, not the author.
But you may ask how it is with people
who don't think or study and have no
inclination that way. A man will study
and think in Dakota when he was never
known to do so before. There are days
here when if man was made OF bass
wood, with a cast iron head
on, he would think and hump
himself, too. These are days
when nature is writing out and deliver
ing insurance policies. Deep freezing
not only pulveriZeS and fertilizes the
soil, but civilizes and stimulates man in
all his higher nature and affords him
the opportunity to reach high and de-
sired end. 1t is not good for man to
work all the time. A Dakota winter
puts an air-brake on him and keeps him
from running into destructive dangers.
1t slows him up in daily labor and gives
him a chance to cultivate himself in
winter and the soil in summer. When a
man sits in the house in Dakota in the
winter. it is not because he is lazy; it is
because
NATURE is DOING THE WORK
for him and his services are not needed.
AS long as nature is willing and prefers
to do the work, man can afford to sit
still.
There is no time in the year when the
intelligent granger is SO happy as when
he sees the thermometer at 40 deg. be-
low zero. When he sees it there he
smiles and says to his wife, ''the guar
antee for the next crop is being signed,
sealed and delivered" A dispatch re-
of the thermometer says so. On receipt
of this pleasant news the time he spends
rubbing his nose to keep 1t from freez-
ing is like moments of gold to
him. The news is almost too good
to be true. He looks at the
thermometer again to see If he has
read it correctly. The second reading
confirms the first-only it is about As
below now. He is satisfied. He throws
hOd of coal on the fire-he feels as
though he can afford coal now, and
plenty of it. He actually feels religious,
and like giving thanks over his good
fortune. He concludes he will read
chapter in the Bible, anyway he does
so, and gets ready for bed. But before
turning in he takes another peek at his
thermometer and gets the latest news
these fellows who gamble in wheat get
dispatches on the market about every
five minutes-the fellow in the country