St. Paul daily globe., 1891-11-26
NfAGNIEICENT SHOWING.


The GLOBE this morning presents to
the millions residing in localities whose
population is naturally tributary to the
NOrthwest,a a magnificent number 1t will
be noticed that the subject matter of its
general contents is unimpeachable testi-
mOny to the most enthusiastic cOngratu-
latiOnS that have hailed the remarkable
crop returns Of the season of 1891. The
burden of this years Thanksgiving song
is the prosperity of the country at large.
And the keynote of this harvest festival
hymn was struck in the Northwest. To
the Northwest all eyes were turned dur
ing the making of this wonderful crop,
and the returns have more than justified
the predictions of the most sanguine.
The attention of Eastern people now
contemplating n removal to the North
west is directed TO the series OF articles
in this issue beariug directly upon the
practical side of diversified farming in
the state of Minnesota. In the East the
idea has obtained that wheat is the one
great staple of Minnesota, if not of the
entire Northwest. This view is entirely
erroneous. At least it is not true today,
whatever may have been the condition
Of our agricultural interests fifteen or
twenty years ago. 1t is true there are
men, like OLIVER DALYRIAIPLE, who,
upon stupendOus scale, make a spe
cialty of wheat. But these men are
purely specialists; and we have, also,
specialists equally prosperous in stock
raising, dairying, numbering, mining,
Of Nf Ic
than wheat. The marked success of
these men emphasizes the advantages
offered by the state of Minnesota in
diversity of what are recognized as
purely agricultural pursuits.
The articles on Northwestern indus
tries published in this number are
from the pens of practical and success
full men in their individual lines. Their
opinions are candid, and their facts and
figures indisputabIe. All the statistics
presented have been carefully prepared,
and are free from eXagg geration. 1t is
true that the Northwest, the greatest
hard wheat country in the world, offers
advantages superior to those of any
other locality. But this fact in no wise
detracts from the scores of other indus
trial pursuits that can be profitably fol-
lowed. Among those which may be
classed as purely agricultural may be
mentioned, aside from wheat, corn,
sheep, hogs, dairy products, neat cattle,
horses, hay, poultry, fax, barley, oats,
other cereals and potatoes. Aside
from a wheat crop Of 67, 1919, ESQ
bushels, averaging twenty bushels to
the acre, in 1891, these other diversified
| Industries produced gross returns to the
value of S152, 1902, ,443. 1t is true that the
| magnitude and Importance of the bread
| cereal crop have Obscured the vision of
! the hOme-seeker in the East. But the
expert miner, lumberman, dairyman,
hOrticulturist, bee-keeper or stockman
can find most interesting data for con-
sideration in this mornings GLOBE.
! There are facts and figures which can
be studied to their advantage. In one
sense they are condensed records of th e
years wOrk-a t1attering resume of one
| busy year ID the great Northwest.
The attention of manufacturers cap
itaists and artisans especially called
to the wide field for their various indus
tries offered by the state Of Minnesota.
! The large variety of hardwood timber
offers superior inducements to wood
workers in the hundreds of lines repre-
sented in this business. The day cam
not be far distant when the natural ad-
vantageS offered by the state in this
direction will place it second to none
other in the Union. In crowning King
Wheat. the country has overlooked the
fact that as far back as 1886, at the New
| Orleans exposition, Minnesota's dairy
products captured first premium in
competition with all the world. There
has been 10 retrogressiOn since. The
values represented by the dairy inter
ests of Minnesota for the present year
amount to $32. 29S, ,7O4.3O.
In the Northwest there IS still a large
amount of vacant land. North Dakota
alone has within her boundaries 16, ,0OO,-
900 acres open to homestead, and there
are yet many millions of acres in Min
nesota. For the prospective immigrant
no state in the Union offers greater in
ducements and more diversified natural
advantages than does Minnesota. Its
climate is unsurpassed; its organic
healthfulnesS proverbial. AS locality
in which to lay the foundations Of
rugged constitutions in children it has
no superior in the world. The figures
of one years work of those devoted en-
tirely to agricultural interests, aside
from milling. numbering, mining anC
manufactures, are startling. A reca
pitulation of the principal industries in
cluded in articles contributed to thi:
issue show the following
VALUES:
Dairying So, ,29s, 20
Wheat NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 65,O00O0
Other cereals. ls............ 56,003, 73
| Live gfOpk 900 %