Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-12
Among Our Farmers.
What the writer found on a Preamble
among some Of Villas CouDfy's
etiHiers Of the SOIL

Just at the present writing the devel-
openent of our county is receing serious
consideration at the hands Of many OF
our CT items.
THE DEMOCRAT believes in the coming
settlement OF our county and in order to
try and place before the public the many
advantages we have to offer to the
home-seekers, the writer, equipped with
pencil and note book, started on tour,
last week, through our farming lands.
The crops and garden truck were never
finer. The oat yield this year is the heav-
lest by far than any previous year, some
claiming the yield will go 100 bushels to
the acre while the more modest farmers
place il at so bushels to the acre, which
is an extraordinary yield, and shows
what the soil around here is capable OF
producing provided it is properly TILED.
This year the average height OF the oats
is about five feet; q sample bunch now
hangs i'll the Denton House andmeasures
from tip to tip, 6 feet and 8 inches, cnd
the kernels contained in one ofstalks was
counted and found to contaIn120 double
kernels.
Tie first farm we visited was a. Crok-
er's, the lie long Republican; he took
wei! 10 our idea bnt thought it must be
q mistake in the paper we were repre-
sa4ting, as he believed no paper only q
Republican organ would sake notice Of q
farmer, unless il was to try and use its
columns to put all farm produce on the
free trade list; but then Al is 8 good fell
low and he showed us his place with
pleasure He and his brother Clint have
the largest farm around here.
They have four hundred and sixty
acres all nicely enclosed With a wire
fence. They settled on the homestead,
part Of this land in 1888, The crops are
looking thrifty. He has now i'll, sixteen
acres OF potatoes, and at a low estimate
expects two hundred bushels per acre;
he has seventeen acres Of timothy hay,
six ceres OF oats, three acres OF beggies,
besides quite large amount OF garden
truck and three hundred acres Of pasture.
We reluctantly bid Al au revoir and went
down to see his neighbor John Moran.
Everything was quite about this place,
but in a few moments the sound Of
John s axe, supplemented with whoa,
d-n yah, /" fell upon the silence We fol-
lowed the sound and found him with his
neighbor, E. Marco, indnstriously clear
ing up a piece Of cut land.
We sat down and watched them as
they pulled the stumps, roots and all.
They would hitch Marco spanking team
OF I've year olds to stump, (Which had
been cut four feet above groud) and with
few pulls, and q little clearing away OF
the soil, they would have Mister stump,
roots and ALL safely out of the way
After we he'd made known our errand,
John gladly gave us the information.
He has a homestead of $50 acres.
He settled upon this land in 1890, and
has taken pride in his farm, and well he
may, for no farm in the southern part Of
the state presents a cleaner or more
thriving appearance, for the amount he
has under cultivation, than does John
Moran's. He has about thirty acres
under cultivation with but few stumps
to be seen.
He has fifteen acres Of oats, eight acres
of potatoes and the rest in garden truck.
All this is nicely enclosed with wire fenc-
ing.
Well OF course as Z. Marco was here