Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1895-08-22
GOOD ADVICE TO WESTERN FAR
MERS.

|
and most honest men in Wiscon-
sin, giving the details of trip
which the judge recently took for
his health through some OF the
eastern and southern states. The
| feature of the letter to which we
desire to call attention is the adj
vice he gives to western farmers,
based on his observations in the
regions through which he travel
ed, to stay where they are, for III
his opinion they cannot better
their condition by taking UP lands
in the east or south.
The judge says he had been led
to believe through circulars sent
out by southern and eastern land
companies, that beautiful farms
were to be had very cheap in the
states of Pennsylvania, Maryland
aud the two Virginias, and he
concluded that if such farms were
to be had for the prices men
toned, it would be nice thing
to exchange a life in Northern
Wisconsin for life in one of those
states, where the winters are so
much rnilder and shorter than
they are with us. He says he is
now home again, after journey
of nearly 1000 miles through ten
states, during which he made it
his business to become acquainted
with the state condition of the
farming population, the quality
OF the soil, the crops, ETC., with
the result that he thinks better
of the northwest than ever be-
fore.
He found the whole country
from the middle Of Wisconsin to
New Jersey suffered from drouth,
the springs and streams dried up,
the grass and pastures burned
brown, small grlin hardly worth
harvesting, corn short and i'll
many places wilted for lack of
moisture. Northern Indiana is a
veritable desert; Ohio in the
northern part is like Indiana,
sandy, and in many places bar
rem; Pennsylvania has small in
ducenents to offer the farmer;
"Marylan d, my Maryla a n dr.
sounds we'll in song, but III most
parts of it the farmer appears to
have a hard time to make both
ends meet. This" he adds, sis
we'll illustrated by the fact that
close to the city of Washington,
| D. c., there are still large tracts
of land that were never reclaim
ed, and probably never will be,
for the reason that they would
produce nothing if they were,
From Washington to Baltimore
the road runs through one TN
broken wilderness, save where
some poor devil, more venture
some than the rest of his kind,
has tried in vain to raise a little
corn or cabbage, or where the
ubiquitous real estate agent has
set up his sign to entrap the un-
wary"
From Baltimore, across the
| ISusquehanna, into the state OF
| Delaware, but few farming lands
of any account were to be seen.
i Around Wilmington the land
seemed better and the crops more
forward, and as the train ap-
preached Philadelphia the farms
appeared in better trim than on
the Maryland side. From Phila-
delphia to New York the country
changes Fl the better.
Summing up Jud ge Goug h
says; "As for Maryland and
1 Virginia, would advise no Wis
consin man to go there in the
hope Of making living By farm.
ing. Better bear the hard wint-
ers in Wisconsin than starve il
Maryland or Virginia. l learned
!: that the cold in those states a
zero affects men and animals
worse than 80 degrees below zert
, would affect them here, owing t.
4ba darnoracc nf tho atrtocc,he n ere