Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-09-07

possibilities. Their attention was en-
tirely taken up with numbering and
they had no time or inclination to do
anything in the line OF farming. Their
success in raising garden stuff gradual
" opened their eyes to what might be
done in the line Of farming and few
enterprising individuals determined to
try it and as a consequence there are
several farms in the county to-day that
will compare favorable with those in
any part of the state.
I Probably the first suggestion that
this might some day become an agrl-
cultural community was given through
observing the rank growth OF timothy
along the roads used in hauling supplies
tothe logging camps when the seed mad
fallen in passing. The early loggers
noticing this made, in some places,
small clearings around their logging
shanties which they seeded down with
timothy to furnish pasture Tor thelr
stock during the summer season. Inc
timothy growing in these clearlngs
yielded abundantly and as time passed
it was seen that these lands remained
free from weeds and yielded abundant
crops of timothy, in many instances,
from ten to twelve years without being
reseeded or having any change in crops.
This knowledge is being taken advan-
tage Of by those engaged in opening up
farms here with excellent results.
The soil here seems peculiarly adapt
ed to raising OF grasses OF all kinds.
A soon as land is cleared II nothing
is done with it it seeds itself to white
clover and june grass affording excel
lent pasture for stock. Red clover dees
finely here and there is no trouble about
it's winter killing as there is not enough
clay in the soil to cause it heave by
frosts.
The soil Of this country is peculiarly
adapted to the raising of potatoes and
all other kinds of root crops, Turnlps
Rutabaga's, carrots, Beets and manglesl
grow exceptionally we'll and yield in
abundance. 1t is not an uncommon oc-
currence to find fields of these various
kinds of vegetables yielding from four
TO six hundred bushels to the acae.
The potatoes grown here are OF ex-
cellent quality and this last season
brouget five cents more per bushel, IN
the Chicago market, than was given Tor
the same variety grown elsewhere.
The soil is quick and well adapted to
raising them and the yield is large;
and when the land is freed fdom stumps
SO that work can be done by machinery
as it is in other localities, they can be
raised here with bnt very little expense
and with larger profit than in most
any other locality.
Cabbage is another vegetable that
the farmers and gardeners here have
met with great success with. A large
crop can be grown on very small area
and that with very little labor as the
soil is easy to work.
The small grains, such as oats, barley
winter wheat and rye, do we'll here and
can be raised as redily as anywhere in
the state. There has always been amin
preston that could corn not be raised
asfara north as this on account OF frosts.
The proximity to lakes Michigan and
Superior exerts a favorable influence
towards preventing frosts during sum-
mer months and that, combined with
the large number of.small lakes in this
county. makes us less subject to frosts
than many localities from one TO two
hundred miles farther south. The
clearing up of the forests has also had
a great deal to do with mitigating the
former rigor of the climate and for the
past two or three years frosts during
the summer months have been unknown
and corn has been grown very success
fully, especially where the soil is some
what sandy and therefore very quick.
we do not wish to be understood as
claiming that this part Of Wisconsin is
as peculiarly adapted to the.raisiag OF
corn ais certain parts Of Illinois and
Iowa, but it's a-fact that there are GER
tail, varieties f1a;1g II pa I'LL Il, IS
we'll here as Gney DO further south.
Several Of. our farmers have fields OF
ao,,,, uh;ch are sufficiently matllred al
this writing to be out. Of the way Of
frosts.
But It is as a daring and stock rails
| ing district that this county is bound
to excel.
The climate is not as changeable as
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the state. The winters are cold and 81
remarkably even temperature and stock
suffer less from cold than where it il
warmer and each warm spell followed