Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-23
A Coming Dairy Region.

Another element OF modern n-o-.-,
farfning that is following the sattia. sslVe
the timber, and the value OF vVbiot lI .
hard TO oyerestimate. is the co-onarat;lA
creamery ana the cheese factory. No--ts
ern Wisconsin Is especially adsntoS ~
dairy farming aud many of tho ~ %
thorltles have long agreed thar i . ave
some day be the richest dair-yiDg J;..1,Il
IN the state, rich as Wisconsin, aire e,SS-iGt
IN achievement in this iudustrv All ~ -
or grasses grow here luxuriantlv N. lug
M.l.e grover comes up spontaneons'-
aIuIYns tue stumps wherever the timho.
ana undergrowth are cleared aygav ~
nisnlng excellent pasturage witboyt t nlI
tWatlon; He'd clover, timothy, blue grsSs
rape, alralfa, and other fors ga TSis,
Yield abundantly. The demonsf-atEE roN -
experiences here is that stock needs "
more (often not as iong) feeding in no 10
winter season than in more southern No
nished By the Wisconsin geologiraI s su5-
Vey SHOWS that the greater portion 20
these north central sections of tba go "
mas SOL very like and quite az ooo5 70
tnat found in Clark. Chippewa. Mas a.
ehon and other counties below them,
People Must See to Believe
It Is very natural for naorI, -,
NOT go upon the ground themselves ~ ~
underrate a region so near ~ 70 70
Inose OF the Older settlers of Wisc loS,.it'
VINO mad learned to regard northern W..
SonSln as wilderness, find il hard ~
less they visit it themselves. TO RAIL,
what has been and is being done nv raG
road building, and by individual al
corporate enterprise, to bring this rich
section into agricultural and manrs teu
turing subsection To some who ba az,
never seen new farm hewn from tbo
wilderness. the task looks unattractivo
and discouraging. but men OF this sort
should inquire what had to be done dn,y
ing the early history Of the older com,
ties to which | have referred :.
For one, have always thought that
the man wh0 was in earnest and ready
TO work, as one must work who makes
home anywhere, was foolish to at.
tempt to do it in any prairie country
when northern Wisconsin is so near m
hand. The man who goes into a new
prairle country to make a home has to
begin with, to take his home with him
even to the roof that must shelter hi9
head. He must take or buy everything
from food and fences to fuel. to develop
his land and support himself and family
at the beginning. The history of prairie
farming, even in Minnesota and the Da.
kotas, that now, with many railroads.
seem very near at hand, has been one
of constant contest between man and
the elements. The prairie farmer has
had to contend with billiards, with FIRE.
quent droughts, with grasshoppers and
with cyclones, and the history OF all
prairie regions, as compared with the
climate of northern Wisconsin, is ono
of uncertainty and often of disaster
Talking of this particular subject, re-
Gently, with a man long resident In re
northern portion Of the state, he said
that but once in twenty-one years had
he known anything like a failure Of
crops Of any sort. for lack Of rain.
Opportunities Are Plenty.
There has been a great deal of develop
ment i'll northern Wisconsin during the
past ten years. and yet, as one travels
over this part of the state, he wonders
that it has not been much greater. For
the farmer living in the older portions OF
the state, who is partly in debt for his
farm; for the prosperous farmer who has
sons and sons-in-laW for whom ne wishes
to find opportunity; for the man who /;
tenant farmer; for the man who works
as a laborer for other farmers and yei
! has ambition to own land himself and tC
make for himself home, northern Wis
consin offers opportunities that SHOULD
be thoroughly looked into before decid
| ing to locate elsewhere. For the residen
of Wisconsin, especially, that is familiar
with the state and its institutions, ant
has proper affection for his neighbons, hi
! friends, and commendable loyalty to hi
commonwealth, there are many attrac
| tions in these opportunities so near a
| home. No business-like man should
chose home except with great care
| and he should avail himself of every op
portunitys 10 get his knowledge at firs
| hand. No man should buy land, witt
| the view of using it, without first seeing
it, and understanding it's disadvantages
as we'll as its advantages. For men whC
| are in earnest, who know what they
want and seeing, recognize it, there arr
| thousands of desirable locations still opef
| throughout all northern Wisconsin ana
| especially throughout the region between
| the Omaha and the Wisconsin Contra
| railways, from Clark and Jackson coun
| ties northward.