The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
Fine Homes!
In Northern Wisconsin They Are
Owned by the Brai1ly, -.
{ Hustling Farmer. = IS. s
ByHerbert vanderhoof.
Special goFresp ondence.

Special gorresponaence. - ~:
Eau Claire, Wis, Oct 4.-The ques-
ton is very often asked by land Seek
ers travelling thru Wisconsin and look
ing over. various properties. how 1t hap
pens that there are so many places scat
tered thru the timber that have mod
ern and finely improved farm dwellings,
occasionally "a. house supplied with q
edeIR heating plant, and water thru
seem to be at loss to understand why
and hoE such buildings got there. The
explanation is not hard to give. The
owners Of these places have as a rule,
lived on them for ten or twelve years
and in that time have put forth their
best efforts to5make the home farm pro-
duce to it's utmost capacity and furnish
them as many Of the luxuriese Of life as
possible. Instead of sitting down and
only, getting two or three acres a year
in shape to produce money, they have
no serious objections to hustling into
the timber in the winter time and cut
ting out railroad ties and cordwood for
the mark Usually it has been the
case that the railroad ties and cord
wood taken from each acre of land have
brought more than the price Of the
land.
{ These men usually used their heads
and did not make their hands do Tall
the work. With the tie and cordwo6d
money, stock Of different kinds was
purchased and turned onto the cut-oye1
lands. While the stock was clearing
out the underbrush, it was also getting
fat and ready for market. In the case
of sheep there was the: extra revenue
of a good wool fleece each year, which
produced an average of 81 sheep. This
CO.. hoo RI ha1 oo1
and every effort put forth by the farm
er. T he result is that after ten or twelve
years he is in position to own first
class home, and his stock is usually
housed in buildings that are not only
tenahle, but excellent protection AS 3
| rule, the machinery on his farm is moi
| left out gof Hdoors to fight the storms
of either winter or summer, but as soo1
-as each Individual piece of machinery
| has done the work for which it was
| calculated, it is put back into the ma
chine shed, where it will be protected
for the balance of the year.
l. But it may be said that such mar
would make a winning. anywhere anj
that others in Wisconsin who are not
SO well fixed would have no harder time
in the older settled communities. This
| reasoning is wrong because the lands
/ of Wisconsin are equally productive
with those OF the older settled com
munities, and the poor man can secure
! what it would cost him to buy farm
in the south or east. Furthermore, tn,
wild lands of northern Wisconsin hav,
not been called upon to produce crops
for from twenty to fifty years and nat
urally, therefore, their soil is in bette
condi ion to bring forth big yield
without the necessity Of irritation.
fsTI think the best advice that can b.
given to the poor farmer or eren tn
Illinois, Indiana and other old settle,
states or communities is break ava,
from your high-priced lands, 90 int
4 one of these new communities and us
your head. Don It expect your hands
do it all !"