Houston County (Classic Reprint)

As to success in raising sheep, we are convinced by actual experiment that no section of country can be better adapted.

This locality is not subject to those long, drizzling rains and chilly (lamps, so prevalent in a more Eastern climate. Houston County as yet can claim but few ?eeces. Though these, it is said, are of excellent quality.

It is an opinion held by many that the climate of Southern Minnesota is too cold for fruit, that it would be killed by severe and protracted winters, and as a proof of the statement, the cold winter of 1856 is urged. It must be recollected, however, that this country was not the only one which suffered from the extreme rigor of that winter. Throughout the Eastern and Middle States the destruction of fruit was almost unparalleled, so great indeed that years will be required to regain what was lost at that time. Of course, Southern Minnesota could not be exempt from the general hardships of that winter, and what few new orchards and nurseries it then possessed were in no better condition to with stand an extremely cold winter than those In places east and south of us. Indeed, the immaturity of our orchards made them more liable to'sufi'er from frosts, as they will be for a few years to come, but there is no reason to believe that this climate, with its remarkably even and moderate temperature, may not successfully compete with any place east of us, of the same latitude.

The introduction of choice fruits is attracting the attention of Houston County farmers the present spring, and a few years will find us producing a surplus.

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