St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-14

structing fantastic theories about the
limit OF production having been reached.
Surely these writer's never saw Mime
sofa! Let the world once get hungry,
and signify that it is willing to pay
fairly remunerative price for the where
wlthall to satiSfy its appetite, and the
agricultural industry, skill and lntelli-
gence Of Minnesota that are now sleep
ing giants, manacled by circumstances
beyond their control, will soon make
the world corpuleut with food. The
yields OF the past and present will ap-
pear lnfnitesimal compared with those
that, under proper stimulus, will come
from the fertile nillSideS. valleys and
| prairies of the North Star state.
OUR CLIMATE.
None of you would doubt this if you
were familiar with Minnesota's agri-
cultural resources. If you knew her
climate, for instance, one of her chief
agricultural resources. A climate that
is sometimes criticised by resident
| dyspeDtics, and generally feared by
| those who never made its acquaintance.
1t is climate i'll which and through
which are developed the highest types of
physical, mental and moral manhood,
| and of sweet, amiable, beautiful woman
hood. If as has been said, the ireside
is the cradle of civilization, surely no.
where can the standard of civilization
be higher than in Minnesota, for there
the freSide is venerated and respected
as IN but few other portions of the
globe. And besides, breathing the pure
and healthful air up there, whether
sparkling with polar-born frost crystals
or perfumed with tropical odors, in
spires moral thought and action. The
pure, invigorating ozone in MinneSota's
air and total depraYity refuse to COM
mingIe.
Wo deeply sympathize with the n
habltantS of other climates. They can
never know the Joy that is ours W hen
we see the first feathery fall of the
beautiful snow after one of our long,
tropical summers and delicious tails.
Nor can they know our sensations of
delight when the grass begins to sprIn G
through the disappearing snow after
one or our splendid winters. They do
not know how green grass may be, can
not realize the poSSI bilitieS OF foliage,
the beauty of wild flowers nor the fine
musical powers of the birds of spring
The appreciation of spring that winter
gives US is a salts faction eQualed only
by the love of winter that summer is
the parent of. That climate has its
utilitarian side as we'll. IL is a gigantic
sanitarIum. Everything that abides
within it is pregnant with health and
vigor. Butter made in ii has the sweat
ness and freshness of youth. and your
omelet never suggests that the parent
of the egg was in Ill healthy. Our hogs
are the healthieSt on the continent, our
beef the juiciest andgour fruit has a
beauty of tint and delicacy of flavor
as rare as they are delightful, and all
due to our magnificent climate.
OUR SOIL.
The next great agricultural resource
of Minnesota is her soil. In taat state
was located the legend of the potatoes
in the hill swearing at each other to
LAY along" the only profanity ever
heard in the state, by the way.
1t is soil that, when slightly tickled
with the implements of the husband
man. bursts into laughter of dimpled
| fruits, golden grain and waving grass.
| The plow leaves long, jet-black trail
| behind it that Sc ems eager to swallow
the intended seed and in haste to ma
| ture the expecte crop. The ages that
| interviewed between the disappearance
| OF tue ocean that once reStlesSly rolled
| over that imme nse domain and the
| coming of civilized man must have been
industrious indee din storing UP fer
! Utility that in pl aces is literally fathOms
| deep. If [ may be allowed the eX-
| preston, the soil of Minnesota possesses
versatility that is rare, wonderful,
and full of golden promise.
In the Red River valley,
region whose fertility typiies
that of the storie Nile, is produced in
wheat that is wit hout peer in all the
world, and other cereals of more than
| ordinary quality and a region where
crop failures are so rare that one is a
matter of almost ancient history before
| another occurs. Coming southwark
| from that prolific region is found soil
and climate ada pied to the growth of
cereals OF all kinds, including corn,
whose dominion is gradually being ex-
tended northward, and grasses OF such
excellence, bordering lakes of such
| purity that the cows eating the one and
drinking from the other cannot help
| contributing to the manufacture of but
| ter and cheese that is dear TO the taste
and the pockets of the most fastidious
| epicures of the far East. until the south
ern portion of the state iS reached, 400
miles from the northern line. Here lies
| what our hOrticu' turistS facetiously
| term the Banana belt" the fruitful
ness of which is the marvel of all who
| know it. And in our march from the
| North TO the South we have traversed
| boundlesS prairieS. crossed counties al
most as large as fair-sized Eastern
states, revelled in the glorious beauties
OF the Park Region, passed the tangled
| maZeS of the Big Woods" been well
| nigh lost in the luxurious verdure of
| the valley of the Minnesota river, have
| gone over the gracefully rolling grounds
| beyond, and finally struck grand old
| hills, blugs and ravines that would sur
| felt the most romantic taste.
OUR SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.
There is yet another agricultural re-
source of our state that must speak of,
though it may seem to trespass upon the
| subject assigned to President Nurthrup,
| OF our university. 1 am afraid that he
| will not admit that that institution is
one of our agricultural resources, while
| propose to insist that il is. Why. even
its president is a. farmer. though you
| won't believe it when you see him; but
he recently assured me that he is
| farmer, and that settles it. But that
| great Institution is an agricultural re-
source of the most valuable kind. 1t
| breaks up the native sod of ignorance,
| plants the seed of morality and wisdom,
| thoroughly cultivates the intellect and
| produces bountlful harvestS of the high
est types of intelligent, exalted man and
| womanhood, by all odd the most impor-
| tant crop a state can grow.
| But the special resource had in mind
when taking up this branch of my sub
| ject was that department OF the state
university known as the school of prac-
| ticai agriculture, whose halls are at this
moment filed with young men fresh
| from the farms. who will go back to
! them in the spring better farmers. better
| citizens. and with Infinitely better opin-
| ions of their vocation. That school, the
| best and a model of its kind, is unlike