Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-06-26
WISCONSIN, LIND
OF OPPORTUNITY
NEW SETTLER CAN RAISE FOR
TUNES IN NORTHERN PART
OF STATE.
SOIL Is VERY PRODUCTIVE.
Adapted for Grazing or Producing Heavy
Crops-Large Returns Are
Possible.
PRICE IS RATHER REASONABLE
BY EDGAR T. WHEELOCK,


Secretary Wisconsin Immigration and he
Yelopmcnt Association.
To the man who comes from Europe,
from countries where the agricultural la
borer must practice the closest economy
in order to live, where the land owner
takes all but mere pittance of the
fruits of the soil and leaves the laborer
that pittance, northern Wisconsin offers
opportunities that are scarcely dreamed
OF. Here are some of those oppOrtuni-
ties:
Any man, citizen or alien, may buy
land at cheap rates, ranging from 81 10
80 an acre, for Il small payment down
and easy terms on deferred payments.
lie Will find upon the land material
that he can work up into forest products
that ind ready sale at the nearest rail
way stations thereby atfOrdlng him an
opportunity to earn Il living while he is
preparing his land for cultivation.
Good Stock Country.
He will find that the natural grasses
of that section-as we'll as clover and
timothy-will keep his COWS in good CON
dition while he is preparing Il place to
raise winter fodder for his stock as
well as vegetables for his family and
the market.
He will find that potatoes yield from
100 to 300 bushels per acre and that
there is ready market at the nearest
village where they can be sold ut fair
p.lce. He will find that he can ship
his milk and cream to the nearest city,
If it should happen that there is no
creamery or cheese factory near at hand,
and receive a good income from that
source.
Here he can raise poultry almost at no
Il 1
high prices in the neighbOring cities and
villages during greater part of the
year.
tie will find that he can raise sugar
beets at a profit of $50 to 500 an acre;
that clover seed will earn from $50 to
500 per acre for the seed alone and
leave the hay for fodder; that enough
fodder corn can be raised on one acre
to winter two cows, when properly mixed
with other kinds of forage.
He will not be called upon to pay
house rent; his fuel will cost him moth
ing but the labor of preparing it for the
stoves, and after short time, every
thing that goes onto his table except
groceries will come from his farm.
Should he at any time need ready
money which cannot be earned by work
ing on his farm, he can find work in the
factories, mills, lumber camps or 1t
some other kind of labor near home by
which he can supply pressing wants.
He will find that the climate is health
ful with pleasant summers, clear, cold,
dry winters, and that the water is the
purest in the world.
Could Raise Vegetables.
All kinds of vegetables, grains and field
crops grown in the country from which
he came can be produced abundantly
here and that there is q ready market
at good prices for everything raised on
the farm.
He will find that northern Wisconsin
is a natural dairy country, probably the
best in the world; that the income from
that source is regular and certain, and,
when good cows are kept, that income is
a substantial one.
do well Ill the New Wisconsin, and that
on wild land sheep and goats aid ma
terially i'll destroying the brush and
thereby aid the farmer in clearing his
land.
All of these facts ought to be consid-
cred by foreign born residents of this
country and the newly arrived immi-
grant who is employed in the factory
districts of large cities, in mining or in
digging bitches or paving streets. The
man who was raised close to the soil
and who understands agricultural work
can become an Independent farmer IN
the northern counties of Wisconsin if he
will take the trouble to look for an OPEN
ing. Northern Wisconsin is a broad en-
pire with millions of acres of good land
waiting for men to come and improve
them. Great as this empire is it will not
be many years before all the best land
will be taken and then the opportunities
for the poor man will have passed
away.