The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
immigration
Association Formed by Business
Men Interested in Settlement
Of Wisconsin.
PROTECTION AND
EDUCATION
Of the New Settler Are the Two
Salient Features of the Or
fs52 ganization.
Nv w. A. Otis.

In every section of the country where
an effort is being put forth to induce
people living in old settled commune
ties to emigrate, there have been at
different times efforts put forth to or
ganize the immigration interests into
cooperative association. This is the
case in Wisconsin. The thousands of
broad, rich acres awaiting to be mas
tered by the hand of the energetic
farmer offer a field for an enormous
business, and hustling, brainy men
throughout Wisconsin have been work
ing persistently for the past fifteen
years to settle the eut-over lands of
| this state. Within the past year efforts
were started to form an association of
these different immigration hustlers to
the end of giving each other co-opera.
ton and concentrating the attention of
| all along certain lines, in order that the
| best results might be obtained.
A few weeks ago a large number of
| the land interests of the state met at
Madison, the state capital, and per-
fected an association known as the
Wisconsin Immigration & Development
Association. Mr.. James L. Gates Of
Milwaukee was elected president and
David Dobie of Nebagamon was elected
secretary. 1t was the concensus of opin-
ion of the charter members of the asso-
citation that one Of the greatest objects
that the association should work for
was the protection and education of the
homeseeker coming to buy land. Once
! q ttler is located on his new farm
the. PRINCIPAL object to then attain is
! his success in cultivating and bringing
| the land to its highest productive capacz
ity. Naturally a man who has spent
the majority Of his life on farm which
l perhaps he inherited from his father,
has been governed for number Of
WOO hxy& hn 1&1 H.
farming in the community from whence
he came. 1t is natural, too, that he
. would not be entirely familiar with the
best ideas to be worked out in his new
home. 1t may be just little hard for
him to appreciate that he can fat just
as many hogs by feeding them peas as
he can by feeding them corn. Further
he may not know that hogs fattened on
3 peas bring as good or better prices in
the market as those fattened on corn.
He may not know the best way to pre-
I pare his soil for the raising of sugar
1beets..s and sugar beets5 in some por-
lions Of Wisconsin are some of the big
:. gest money makers.
There is great deal to be learned by
the new settler as to the best and
e easiest ways to clear his land Of
4 course, he might do as they used to do
J. thirty years ago-clear it off with an
5 axe, pile up the underbrush he has har-
! vested, and when it is dry set fire to
K it. But the experience of recent years
> teaches. that this was a bungling and
wasteful way. A great deal of timber
n used to be burned up that should have
produced good price in the market.
: Today the only timber he slaughters is
s that which may be converted into rail
70 road ties, telegraph poles and cordwood.
y The underbrush- is left to the angora
! goat and. the sheep. As has been stated
{. before, the angora goat is commonly
Il called in the timber countries the auto
- . matte underbrush clearer. After the
o. goat has gorged himself all summer long
With the bodies Of young saplings, the
-. flesh on his bones brings a good price
At in the Chicago Live stock markets. ...
rel These and thousand other. little
. points to assist the new settler are OBJ
"a jects which the Wisconsin immigration
III & Development Association is putting
into it's educational department. Every
E? member of this association is anxious
=, that each new settler shall make sue
~ cess from the start and be booster for
w northern Wisconsin at once
Il Another object the association has in
view is to see that titles to lands trans
lferred are clear of all clouds. The asso-
So citation has held its second meeting
~ and from reports from different parts of
- the state, are to the effect that every.
thing is hourishing. .a-..-, -.
The Car Grassland.
Some members of the association are
backing in a financial way sort of
20 Wisconsin state fair on wheels. Sam,
>. Piles of the various vegetables and root
% . crops, small grains, berries, fruits, etc.
&c decorate the interior of the car, and the
- car itself is sent to different points in
al southern Wisconsin, southern Mime
IF sofa, Iowa, Illinois,, and Indiana to
n show the people in these localities the
RI possibilities of northern Wisconsin sol
Id and the things Wisconsin raises to pro
b. duce her. wealth: =
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