Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-30
PROGRESS IN MISSOURI.

| Missouri has made greater progress
| in the last 10 years than any otner
state in the worlds great valley' says
| A. e. Winhip in the Boston AdVerllsei.
All Jokes on Missouri are Off, ana
| is time that the country as Whole
should appreciate the marvellous Trans
formation that has been brought ABOUT
in recent wears. They still raise
mules. but they are for sale ana not
for use. You will see fewer muies III
harness in town and country IN MISS
ouri than in Iowa, Illinois or Indiana
but carloads, train-loads, VIII De seen
going out of the state, your Dlooueo-
six months old mules, which at tnat
age sell at the farm for from SlOo 10
$3.50 each.
In no state will you see more blood
ed stock than here. Beautlful caItie
in large herds and the best OF sneep
in large focks may be seen on the
thrifty farms all over Missouri. Inc
best of farm machinery is everywhere
and the homes and yards are as Wen
trimmed as anywhere in New Eng
land, and the crops are from the pest
seed and the cultivation is by APP
proved methods.
This has come in comparatively re-
cent years, and with it the change Oh
sentiment that gave the state first 10
Folk and then to Hadley.
What has done it? Two import
ant factors have been the moving TO
Oklahoma and Texas vast numbers,
and the coming in their place OF some
of the best blood and enterprises OF
Iowa, Illinois and Indiana In one
county within five years more than zoo
of the best farms have been bought
by these men. In the Brookfield high
school, in the heart of the state, there
are 60 sons and daughters of the
farms outside of the city paying tut
ton and of these more than 20 per
cent came from Iowa alone in the last
five years.
The farm places tell the story.
was on a farm recently that was sold
in 1900 for $50, and this year it was
sold for $125 an acre. This is not an
unusual experience. Many enterprising
farmers who had tripled the value of
their Iowa farm from 1890 to 1900 have
come to Missouri and played the same
trick
1t has long been known that the soil
of Missouri was in every repect equal
to the best in the states to the north,
and it was also known that the eli
mate was a trifie safer, because less
liable to unreasonable frosts and
freezes, but there was prejudice be-
cause of the time-honored jokes at
her expense. All this has changed and
there is no more attractive state to
the man of means and thrift who seeks
pleasure and profit in farming than
here.
The state university was the first
demonstration of the reign of brains
in Missouri. Under President Jesse it
became one of the most prosperous of
all state universities, with scholarly
standards as high as the best, and
with variety of courses as attractive
as any. President Hill made national
reputation there and was called to the
head of a department at Cornell, only
to be called back to the presidency
after two years. Under him the
studies in progress bid fair to be great
er in the near future than in any
other state university.
The state normal school at Kinks
Vile is one of the largest and most
aggressive Of any in the country, with
half the students young men. -Four
other notably successful state normal
schools have been established, so that
the five great sections of the state are
adequately provided for.
This year for the first time there
are to be county superintendent of
schools, and they are to be better paid
than in four-fifths of the states of the
union.