Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-09-06

NJ $MlNNESO ~ 4. III
Minneso ii 1 ooked upon BY her
I; NEG hbof far and near As being
\ one sof le most ~ gressive Of the
states i all The Union; nor il the
estimat Thus put upon her too
high oI undese ryed It's simply
wond|f nl how nearly correct the
III world weigh Hin men aud ~ Inn l1ln-
5iitties, Ind states md nations ia its
balaY es hence if Minnesota
bear the rep ntation for pro- fess
almft without parable ~ il be-
n cause such progress has been real
Bbtthe mary lous prog tess made
by {ur people has not been equal
or hniff I'm. Some of the trees Of
Mihnesotean advance have grown
lop-sided, and this IL more es-
. pecially true of the tree Of
agriculture. The i p:mosts branch
of this tree, l;eprese ntipg the
wheat industry, has run 50 far up
towards the blue SKY that there
8is danger the winds Of Heaven
will snap it Of. The branch Of
dairying has grown 50 vigorously
that it is pulling the trunk to one.
side. Thanks to the State Dniry
ssociation, to our own Prof
.Haec ker, and to Superint endent.
Gregg for much Of the vigor Of
this branch. III
The branch which repr esellts5
horticulture has made a growth.
which has been much admired by
fair minded men. But the
branches represe ntipg. beef and.
mutton, and even swine where,
are they9 hy !, their gro With is.
feeble and sickl ". They are tiny,
delicate. little branches, half dead
! and half alive. That they are SO
will Be apparent from the follow
/ ing figures taken from the statistic
al returns for 1894: In 1894 the
cattle III the state as returned to-
the assessors were 912 ,O69; that is.
to say, fewer than in 1887 by g.
s and fewer than in 1890 BY
139, O97. The number Of dairy
cows II creased during that periods
that is to say from 1887 to 1894,
81, $50. The falling away there
fore has benin beef cattle, and HIN
has been serious with the beet IN
sterest a; spregent ed There - noE
wond that 10 Il 50 to-
! Kansas City and Omaha fol much
of th = beef wanted to feed ourown
scitlzens. Dairying has, during
the same y ears, made q great ad-
vance, but the latter . interest was
represented BY 4 livestock asso-
citation. while the former. was not
so represented.
Again, i'll 1894 the nun Der Of
sheep as returned to the assessors
was 352, O37 and the swine 346,
sS32. This means that il all Min
nesota there is but one sheep to
every 143 acres Of the land surface
Of the state, and Of swine, but one
Is every las acres Of the same.
Now, suppose that but one.
twentieth Of the land surface Of
the state were devoted to sheep
'hus bandry, and that but o1le-
fourth as many sheep were pas
tured upon the same during the
summer as are now being pastu red
upon an acre Of land at the Uni
.yersity State Farm, what would it
mean9 tt would mean that but
eight acres Of land to every
quartz ction devoted to sheep
husbandry would furnish pasture
for 10, O67, or sheep, or, that It
could be made to sustain ), 033, 536
head the year round; that Is to say
q very much larger number than
is found III Ohio, the banner state
for sheep il all the Union And
Yet it IS i fact that no state within
our borders is better fitted for
growing beef mutton and pork Of
the finest quality At least I 50 re- 'e
gard it. / do SO for the reason|
that no state can grow greater
variety Of food products, such as
cattl sheep and swine require to
feed upon no state can grow