The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-26

clover that do not believe is surpassed else
where in the United States. 1t is this same
wonderful grass product that Is attracting to
northern Minnesota and Wisconsin some of
the best stock raisers and dairymen of Iowa,
Illinois and Indiana. 1t is an intelligent class
of men who are coming out from those states
and buying these once despised cut-over
lands. They are educated farmers and they
have ample means for hurrying the work Of
converting this present wilderness into a
region which will In the near future be
famed as one of the great dairy and stock
raising districts of the country. But to re-
turn to the prospects for the new settler with
slender purse-and 1t is for his nforma-
ton that I am writing this: Had he plenty
of means he would clear say twenty or thirty
acres the first year, but If he is working with
his own hands unaided he will do we'll il he
clears ten acres. He can cut his winter S
supply Of hay from the timothy which grows
breast high along the old tote roads or If
the region was never lumbered he must go to
the low lands for wild hay. Each year it
should be more his aim to increase his herds
of cows and sheep and enlarge his pasture
rather than remove every stump from his
farm. The feed Is just good with the
stumps there and it takes money and muscle
to remove them unless the timber was cut or
burned many years ago and the roots are
we'll decayed. 1t is important that the land
an area no larger than is needed to keep
them thriving as this hastens the destruction
OF weeds and brush and the working in Of
tame grass.
Prospect for happiness.
. A man should never forget when he pro-
jects some such enterprise as rearing home
and making his fortune in this new country
that while he is doing this life is slipping
away from him and that the years SO spent
should yield him something besides bread and
| clothes and provision against sickness and old
age They should yield him every hour of
the day and every day of the year an unfail-
ing supply of the chief thing he is living for
happiness. And If he is a child Of nature, or
even distant relative. he can find on every
hand in this northern land plenty to fill his
soul with glory. The cut-over and burned
over regions are by no means treeless des-
erts. Here and there are GASES untouched by
fire or ak, in which the grand old pines, hem
| locks, oaks and elns are yet growing in all
| their primeval glory. The birds sing; the
whirr of the partridge breaks the stiffness; a
deer leaps across the open. If the new settler
| is anything of sportsman, his gun gives him
many a toothsome meal and saves him many
| dollar on his meat bill. Deep. cool lakes,
streams ripping over rocky beds-oh' the
! glory of these lakes and streams-everywhere
abound for the housewife and children there
is the "fun' of gathering wild raspterrles,
! plums and blueberries for the winter del1ca-
| cies for the table; the wandering in the au-
tumn woods in quest of nuts. For man, Wo-
man and child. in spring, summer and fall
the region is rich with natures beauty IN
forms no camera or artists brush can ever
depict in all their splendor. Once started on
the road to prosperity and, if gifted with the
blessed faculty of appreciatng the enhancing
landscape of this region, no family with heal
thy notions of what constitutes true comfort
in life will ever become disconnected In
| home with such surroundings.
A Tributary Empire.
| And there is an empire OF such country trib
utarv to the twin cities. 1t will soon be set
tied. Nowhere in the United States is there
any "cheap land" comparable to it. Picture
it twenty-five years hence. with fine farm
| houses. big barns, schoolhouses, creameries
telenhone lines, daily mail deliveries, we'll
: graded roads. winding around the lake shores
and thriving villages here and there! Luck!
the man who secures title to a farm at pres
emf prices l am not selling lands, but ther'
is satisfaction in directing restless ant
homeless humanity to a spot where industr!
and but little money quickly supply compe
+ence and comfortable home amid surround
| ings which tend to develop the best and no
rlest traits of the human SOUL The tru
nhilanthropist can find no better employment
than in aiding the hundreds of homeless poo
In the great cities to locate on these lands ant
become self sustaining, useful producers, In
dependcnt,' clear-headed, strong-bodled cltl
zens. ui1 w. O"''
| II,+chinson A7lR II.