Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — AGRICULTURAL. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL.

Rye barley crop of Minnesota is regortej the heaviest ever produced in the tate. Corn can now be safely cribbed. Let the boys go into the fields with songs aud rejoicing. In Louisiana the sugar cane knocked down by, the storm has straightened up and is growing a fine crop. The pastures generally have become flush under the late rains, and, in many localities, previously dry, stock are getting full feed. The production of butter and cheese in this country Is said to be four times greater in value than the total yield of our gold and silver mines. The tide of immigration now pushing into Kansas in wagons, is larger than ever known before. They are destined for Western Kansas principally. There is an extraordinary demand for timothy seed, meadows generally not having produced well this seasen. The market has constantly advanced since August. The Philadelphia Record, in noting the failure of the beet root sugar crop in California, says.: It beats nothing In- the way of cane sugar, but beats stockholders out of $60,000. Neither Indian corn, nor potatoes, nor squashes, nor cabbage, nor turnips, were known in England till the opening

of foe tenth century. The peasant* and steam." The contest ho^r fc h&wSTuS aodlord and tenant: i.»3^?,3^ Ven ß? rt Democrat has a glowing paragraph on the quantitv of ljist year about 3,000 acres of winter wheat were put in, and the yield was immense, in some instances as high as thirtv-flve to forty bushels to the acre. This year nearly 25,000 acres have been put in. some one may have sore fingers over the winter wheat caaze. H°n James Wilson says. "Just now, there is a great demand for feeding steers, which is an evidence of something Jacking. The most profitable way to manage is to raise the steers you feed, as you rarely can buy, first-class animals. It takes care to reach the point when you are possessed of first-class young steers, and those who are enterprising enough to raise good steers are generally wise enough to feed them. Farmers who" have money at command can not easily put it in a more profitable investment than a judicious outlay on their farms. Draining we land is estimated to return from 40 to 80 per cent on the yearly cost. In the same way, good stock pays better than poor; good fencing, well selected fruit trees,carefullyjlooked-after homesteads, all repay the money laid out, and besides all that, add immensely to the comfort of the occupier. Stocks may rise, or stocks mav fall; usury be excessive, or interest decrease; hanks may suspend and great corporations fail; but the farmer need never be a loss where to use his surplus Adding acresto acres is not always wise; but to increase the productive power of the land, to improve the home, is a good use of mouey wheu sensibly done and in the increased profit secured, and good and comfort gained, there will be a certain reward, of I lie prudent saving which gathers !he capital that makes progress and prosperity possible