. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . arecontinuing to make heavy outlays of money to obtain full-blooded and high-graded animals of the bestbreeds. A large number of the bulls, stallions and rams owned in the State are imported, and many ofthem are thoroughbred. There are also a good many imported cows, mares and ewes owned of these are high-priced animals, and their aggregate cost counts well up into the hundreds ofthousands of dollars. THE INTEREST, WOOL GROWING, ETC. The dairy interest in Minne
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . arecontinuing to make heavy outlays of money to obtain full-blooded and high-graded animals of the bestbreeds. A large number of the bulls, stallions and rams owned in the State are imported, and many ofthem are thoroughbred. There are also a good many imported cows, mares and ewes owned of these are high-priced animals, and their aggregate cost counts well up into the hundreds ofthousands of dollars. THE INTEREST, WOOL GROWING, ETC. The dairy interest in Minnesota has rapidly grown to imposing proportions. The creameries makebutter equal to the best product of Western New York, and cheese which has no superior. Wool and poultry form important sources of revenue to the Minnesota farmer. Besides the oppor-tunities already enumerated for deriving profit from his labor, he also has his garden. If he lives nearenough to a large city to send fresh vegetables and berries to market by wagon or railway, he can find ~. ^ ready sale for them; and the canning fac- <^X^. tories, which are being constantly estab-lished in different parts of the State, addlargely to the chances of disposing of iheseproducts profitably. Tons -of vegetablesare marketed every year already, and thedemand is not nearly supplied. In addi-tion to these are the strawberries, rasi^ber-ries, currrants, blackberries, etc., whichmay be inexpensively cultivated, yieldabundantly and sell readily. If he is in atimbered locality he may have the furtherresource of cranberries, blueberries, etc.,that grow wild, and of ginseng and othermedicinal roots and plants that are foundin most of the wooded districts. INEXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES. Roadway, Park While the development of the agricultural resources of Minnesota have so far chiefly engrossed the attention of lier inhabitants, the conditions are now arising which will cause more attention to
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