The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-12
ON THE HUNT FOR LAND
Call of the Red uzzled
Calf-Best Always in
Next County or
State.
Hugh J. Hughes, North Dakota
Agricultural College, in Farm,
Stock and Home.

Stock and Home.
The American public is on the nun
for land. and in its methods II qulIt
resembles a bunch Of calves let loose
| onto pasture in the spring. one req
muzzled calf let's out a "B-r-r-r'rah
that means Come on fellows, there's
some extra fine picking down mere
and off they go, grasping a mouthfu'
here and another there, V settilhe
down to rest and quiet feeding unit
the whole pasture has been ranged
over.
Then O have the American only
his red-muzzled calf is the real estate
agent whose better grass is always
over in the next county, or the othef
state, or-if you will pull up stakes
and 90 across the continent he would
have YOU believe that there cucum'
bers grow as big as the old-tashloneu
Long Green watermelon, and that all
else grown is in proportion.
II makes no difference, north, u
east and west are all alike to the red
muzzled calf. | have in my once de
scriptive matter relating TO the "a
cifc coast, to the extreme Canadian
Northwest, to the Gulf coast, n 10
the cheap lands east OF the Allegha-
MES besides some that relates TO a
section of the country a little nearer
home. And the remarkable feature
OF all this matter is that for all prac-
tical purposes it might have been
written in duplicate, the name OF the
locality and crops being left out.
There is in every case the same "un-
precedented yields" "matchless Gil
mate" market facilities good e
erything and everybody else"
Now it is not my purpose to discour'
age the man who would better his
condition by moving from the land he
now occupies. 1t will be a long time
before u population is 90 hedged
about and as immobile az is that OF
the European countries today. 1t will
be some decades before we of Mime
sofa and the Dakotas face the land
dearth of our Eastern and Middle
states. and in the meantime every
thinking man should be careful and
anxious to provide himself with a
good home-the best that he a find
Ownership of land means more to,
day than it did fifty years ago; in
fifty years from today it will mean to
our children a tremendous sight more
than it does today. So, by all means,
get hold of a good farm in a good
neighborhood, and lay there the foun,
ldations of an estate that shall mean
to your family, in the years to come,
when land shall be scarce and hard
to get, what the home of the French
farmer OF today means 70 him.
But it is not necessary 10 go very
far from home In order to find a place
to your liking. In fact, the average
man will do better, under ordinary
conditions, in his own locality or sec
ton of the country than he will IL he
moves into a new country, where all
the surroundings are different, and
new methods have to be adopted In
order to win success. 1t is very proba'
BILE that the prospective homeseeker
would get a better bargain, be better
satisfied, have more money, and de
rive more satisfaction and enjoyment
out of life, If, instead Of following the
real estate mar to the latest Eldoradc
he and his wife would leave the house
in care Of the children, climb into
their buggy and spend a week or two
or three weeks. exploring their owr
or a neighboring country.
I know this sounds foolish, but
mean 1T. There are men in almos-
every neishborhood in the East wht
have heard the call of the red-muz
zled calf, and have travelled twic,
across the continent-once looking
eagerly forward TO a new experience
and quick fortune; once, broken ant
beaten, thanking God that there wa
an old home to 20 back to. II WASH
| always the fault Of the new countr,
| that these men failed, neither was /
| always their fault. The man and tn,
new conditions did not At. In the oil,
home Gee has come to many o
these men. 1t is too bad that flna
success had to be won at such a price
From boyhood up | have been tray
cling over wisconsin. Minnesota an
the two Dakotas, and the fact has In
pressed itself on my mind, that Their
IS hardly a locality I have aver vi.
tied where a man could not, by tai
ing advantage Of the soil. climate an
markets, make for himself e fai
home. Some sections are better tina
others, just as some farms in a neigh
borhood are better than others; bu
the MAJ who wants to better his col
dition can usually do 1t inside Of
days ride behind his pillow team.
were hunting for "greener fields an
pastures new" | would take time /
find out what lay about me before
went farther afield. lest. like the ma
in the fable, I might have to com
home again and find fortune the tel
ant of my own abandoned fields.
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