Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-07

m Ida
ari1li1s s. pective In m
nj graiIts % III F1orld q .
rult ard ems
EEditors NVILLsIA H aTIs1Bu Il lc::s|
~ If prevent
poor people, Is nearls from.
Isggoing down thereto be diss appointed
and. deceived land sha rksssSs
and real estate AGENTS, Issl1all BE glad.
Et e, dos W.. did mot isit the. Ia
Ishassee regi on where the Clark Synd II
cate Comp aniess and IS ocated and
which they are jjust now 30 q up
Farm Fires ide, SO we aim I'M
that there is no ffentii land IN. tl1s.t:
region, but as 8 Fireside says
their olony land IS al pine land We
do : ay th at s aw. enough Of
Florida pine 70 Judge sornethi Of
its fertility .,re not on1 BOOM
ing Lion County, but all mid die and
western Flor Hear at the Flor.
ida State Commits ioners Of a eric X
l2tule says ii order to induce settlers
tocome there: he pine lands are
|.diyide into !. 3 c1asses, first, second
and third. he soil of the first scla ass
issrena rlablys fertile, proc cling good
crops on the same soil from 10 to 90
years, without ferti ton, 40 bu. OF
corn, 40 to SO oats, 200 to 400 bu. Of
sweet otatoes,1 to 2 tons Of hay,
etc. 1'S NoW=3if this he true, why in the
name Of truth did not. we, in going
from Tampa to the n orthern :boundry
ofthe state, on the Florida Central
Railroad, see some 81. this rich pine.
land. We saw nothing but pine land
Ecyprus swan1ps, and looked in vain
for 3 change in the appe arance Of the
soil, but it all looked like that around
Tampa, the same poor white sandy
SOIL, al wild and uncultiyated with
the exeept ion of the dead orange groves
spoken of5in my former letter. fIfit:is
as; rich as they pretend, why did We
not see at least some cultivated farms;
with peach and pear. orchards etc.
The writer in Farm & Fires ide further
says that the swamp land is easily and
cheaply drained, when it makes the
richest land. in the world, so my BROTH
er-went into one of these swamps,
and he says it was lower than the land
around it, and g perfect mat 81 pal
metto. He thinks a man could not
afford to clear it for less than 800
an acre, and how could it be drained
unless the water will run up hill? 3 A
writer. in Farm & Fireside further
says .'In no other state in the Union
can q man get such profitable returns
by using brains and muscles, Who,
with halfcommon sense does not know
that that. is a lie? He further says,
Gas poor mans country West Flor;-..
da leads the list; little money is need
ed. etc, to make q fortune. = If he
had said it leadssthe list in poor men,
he would have come nearer the truth.
| do not say there is no prod uctive
land in Florida, for the agric ultural
products. OF the state proves that there
is,s butt do say, q believe a man
will work harder trying to make a
living by farming there, than in any
other state in the Union that y have
visited. These railroad land spccu-
lators, will take a,man down there on
3 day excursion at half fare, take him
him to a good hotel, drive around
with him to see the best farms, tell
him big stones as Ito what the land
will produce, give him no time to- look
around and see the dark side, and if
he comes from the north where the
mercury is down to zero, and in "a
hours lands in a country where it. is
SO or 10 degree above, he is very apt
to think it a deli full climate, and a
paradise, but let him stay through the
long summer, and endure the mnsqui-
tos, sand flies, the blighting vegeta-
ton, the malarial d isease, the warm
drinking water, and many other draw
backs, and I think he viii wish him
self back where he came from. The.
land in southern Georgia looks very
much like that Of Florida with the ex-
|ception Of the. palmetto. The soil is
white $ and, and in some Of the cotton
fields, the last years stalks were not
more than one foot high, and in the
corn stubbles, the stalks we're not
larger than our nger, not more than
33or s feet high and only one in a
place about 3 feet ap art in I, row, and
q 81 feet the other wa ~ gu can Judge.
for Yourself how mnch such corn
would go to the acre q native.
southerner specially 9 poor man:
can get plenty OF corn-bread and
bacon he will not comp ain, and 81
know of.some IN florida who did not.
comp lain when they could get corn
bread made with cold water without
the bacon; but eople from the north
do not like to live that way ~ it'll the.
Exception sof q aoks onvil le and ST.
sAugustine, Eampa Is pro baby the