Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1909-12-24
WISCONSIN INCOMPATIBLE
Brief Review Of Some Of the Undevel-
oped Possibilities Of the Badger State
By AID. Campbell

Northern wisconsin IS raploiy DE-
coming recognized at her true worth.
Her merits were long ago discovered
by Jew pioneers and they were pro-
claimed by Investigators who were not
afraid OF public opinion, but the ICON
servatives' were not willing to accord
her position among the sections OF
rich possibilities and magnificent fut-
ures. This information consisted OF
stories told by retired loggers OF other
days who had seen the spots where
pine grew alone in the pot-holes OF .
few small areas, and from these tales
they concluded that there was nothing
good in the great New Wisconsin
They new not that three-fourths or
more of northern Wisconsin is rich
clay loan, varying to productive
sandy loam before the final sandy
strips are reached. They had never
seen the vast areas covered SO thickly
wife luxuriant growth of Eastwood,
birch, elm and maple that in square
mile the sun might seek in vain to kiss
the earth. They didn't know that
where Old Sol was so lucky as to find
the soil something must grow. They
advised HON eseekers to go to the
bleak, b]izzardly, alkili-cursed prairies
of the west and raise wheat as long
as the land could retain its fertility
and then
1t has escaped many that the history
of the country showr that high priced
lands are made SO by the dairy Look
the country over and you will find
that where the dairy is supreme, there
are the high priced lands. An argu-
incentive gentlemen said to me the
other day-."'you are mistaken in say
ing that the dairy brings high priced
lands" and when asked him to &C
count for the close association of the
two, added that, 1.-THE dairy prevails IN
areas of high priced lands because no
other industry can maintain them. :
let him have his way OF reasoning.
The fact still remains
How long ago was it that wheat
raising farmers of debilitated lands in
southern Wisconsin were worrying
about their mortgages? 1t was SO also
in southern Midnesoaa. Those OF us
who have passed two scose years need
not be told about this. The dairy and
the modern creamery and cheese fac
tory were not friendly to the mortgage
The lands recuperated; prices went up.
I took drive out from Madison the
other day aud coaxed farmer. to put
price on his farm, and when he did
SO was reminded of the fellow who
said that. ssif steamboats, were selling
for dollar apiece he couldn't buy a
gang plank" 1t doesn't matter what
his price was, it was to big for me,
however, worth every dollar asked.
There is just as fertile, just az level,
just as well located land in northern
Wisconsin waiting for some energetic
man to come and make it into the
finest and most valuable dairy farms.
Such lands may be obtained close to
growing towns.
A doubter asked me the other day
if scrops matured up there?" # you
will take the government weather
charts, you will find that the lines
start in southeastern Wisconsin and
wend their way up into Northern Wis
consin and westward into Minnesota
when they drop away down to the Iowa
line That is significant. Your good
Uncle Samuel knows a thing or two.
Doubters are invited to look at the
cornfield picture which= accompanies
this article The writer was present
when it wac taken, and il he hadn't
been slow thinking Scotchman, would
have got in front of the camera. 1t was
taken Sept. l, 1905. 1t was within ten
days of maturity and the first frost
thaa year was Sept. 80. The same day
we took pictures enough of maturing
cornfields to fill page in this paper
all in northern Wisconsin, where some
nsk-"Do crops mature2'. Last year
corn was ripe Sept. Is and the first
frost was Oct. 3. This year corn oom-
pared with southern Wisconsin all
summer. At the North Wisconsin state
fair we made . picture of some stalks
OF corn ten feet and more in length
having as fine ears as you would care
to look upon.
OF course, one cannot clear off the
timber and raise corn at once, for it
grows too rank. The writer has seen
people expecting such first year crop
standing twelve or thirteen feet high
to reach maturity. They might as well
plant acorns in the evening and expect
to market saw logs in the morning
Now, let us be conservative. Ne know
that the soil there is suited to quick
growth, we know that the great scheme
of nature calls for prompt mrturity in
northern chimes. But we will humor
our doubters and admit that corn is
somewhat doubtful. Still the silo
comes into play and relieves the dairy