Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-01-21
NORTHERN WICONSIN
RICH IN FARM LAND.
Commissioner of immigration
Writes of Soil in Hardwood
Timber Belt.

is heard upon every hand. Whether
inspired by the effect of rising prices
for food stuffs or from some other mo-
tive is not material. The fact is that
the long prevailing movement from
country to CITY has SO upset the social
equilibrium that to get back to the
land. is absolutely essential if the cost
of foOdstuffs is not TO become unbear-
able. 1t is unnecessary to quote stat
istics showing the relative numbers en-
gagged in rural and urpan pursuits by
decades-the food problem tso clearly
proclaims the necessity of a reverse
movement.
Advice to ''get back to the land" has
been given by millions of tongues and
pens. The soundness of the advice is
conceded by all. The city wage Garner
has heard it and read it, and is doubt
less endeavoring to determine where,
with his limited capital and equally
small experience, he had better go.
Perhaps he has but few hundred dol
lars that he has been saving from none
tos large wuges to buy home. If he
is to get back to the land" where had
he better go?
He has choice of several PROPOSE
tions:
1. He may buy high priced farm
and go heavily in debt, which he will
hesitate TO do.
2. He may go to distant points on the
western plains and undertake the
methods known es ''dry farming"
which the government year book ad-
vises him not to do unless he can buy,
stock and equip section or more of
land and have reserve fund.
3. He may renounce his home coun-
try and go to foreitin lands.
4. he may go into the hardwood tim
Der belt that extends across northern
Wisconsin, tapping over into Michigan
on one side and Minnesota on the
other.
And what will he find there? He will
first be impressed with the splendid
ozone-laden atmosphere that is such a
relief to people with bronchial troubles
and hay fever as to have attracted
great attention. He will enjoy the
clear, pure, soft water and note the
pride taken in good roads and schools.
If he is away from settlements he will
wonder how claver and timothy came
to grow where no man appeared to ever
have been.
If in the fall, he will be astounded
by the abundance of raSpbsrries and
berries and cranberriss in the marshes
that go to waste every year. He will
see deer and other game in the woods
and will be sure that rivers and lakes
of such water as he finds must be filled
with fish.
Upon inspection of farms in the set
Elements he viii be impressed by the
wonderful green and productive pas
lures, the well filed haymows aud the
fine dairy COWS. He will be surprised
to and oarnfields and no less surprised
at the quality as well as quantity of the
potatoes and root crops. In some see
tions he will see immense crops of SUI
gar beets, tobocco, clover seed, and he
will be told that truck gardening can
be carried on with handsome returns
and that small fruit does wonderfully
well-and he notes the great frequency
of manufacturing towns that need
these things.
The fact that fuel And building mat
srial are at hand will not escape him.
He sees settlers clearing more land
while their crops I've growing and
learns that every piece of timber large
enough for fuel has . value and that
while clearing the settlers are obtain
ing an income discounting tnat of the
factory worker.