The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-10-12
COMMUNICATED.

Editor Times.
note with favo, the comments and en-
couragement in yOu last paper in regard to
my opening up, just vest of town, farm.
am convinced that there is no point in
our own state, neither IN the state of Mime
sofa, where stock and grain farm can be
made so profitable as right here at the head
of our Lake, andin the immediate vicinity of
Superior. l have spent considerable time
and have giventhe subject good deal of
thought during the last year or two, and
from facts obtaind find that we raise better
any county in either of the states before
mentioned,
1t is not untilthe last year or two, since
work has been 81 scarce and wages very low,
that any genera movement has been made
to clear up our hnds and put the same under
cultivation. AL of our citizens have each
had their vegetable gardens from which they
have obtained large proportion of their
yearly living, bat none have felt the neces-
sity until late years of going further, and
making an effort to obtain their entire re-
source from the soil. Uudout tedly one
Stimulant has been the ease in clearing Of
late years, or snce our annual destructive
woods fires have so completely burned up
timber and underbrush that at the present
time spots of from one to i've acres can be
readily found where with but little picking
up the same can be made ready for the pow.
We have market right here at our door
for everything We can raise, and particularly
that staple article, wheat, which seeks it's
outlet via. our great Lake TO an eastern and
foreign market. Here we have large eleva-
tors and men With ample capital to handle
extensively this one commodity. And when
No. l wheat will net the farmer but 80 cents
bushel $50 miles west and south of US, it
readily sells in small lots for one dollar here,
and in car load lots-350 bushels or over
will bring at all times Milwaukee quotations.
Our soil in undoubtedly more difficult to
work than that of the sandy or loamy prairie,
but when it comes to producing ours stand at
the head of the heap.
Again there are many who scorn the idea
of our raising stock here. Their whole ar
gument being our long winters. l would
like to know if there are any in our midst
and we comprise many nationalities-who
can tell of spot on Mother Natures earth
that produces anywhere near the luxuriant
growth of grass found here at Superior. We
raise better hay, and almost double the guam
tity per acre of any farming lands known
west. Where do you see as fine a lot of cat
tie as those found grazing on our commons,
and what is the expense to our people of
keeping them ? All will admit that if the
cost was great many would be obliged to give
up their cows, for generally speaking our
residents are not of the acealthy class. But
the expense is so trihing they all feel able to
keep at least one and many are keeping over
from t,co TO tfvs and sic head. But how do
they aointer them, the winters are so long ?
These men will all tell you that they cut
their hay, and in Sufficient quantities, right
in their door yards, in their gardens, in little
patches they have cleared up and sprinkled
with timothy and clover. Not one out of
fifty of these men has any great clearing on
which to raise hay for their stock, to be sure
they have each but few head. To winter
more would necessitate having more grass
lands. which can readily be made available
by little manual labor. Tame hay can be
raised here at half the expense it costs tc
produce it in other soils, once seeding ifprop