Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-04-01
The ORDINARY man
NORTHERN WISCONSIN A LAND
OF PROMISE
NO IRRIGATION NECESSARY HERE

Nu IltItIUHttUN VLOLVOnuI HAu@
A Comparison of Possibilities of the
l Ordinary Farmer who is Looking
for Home of His Own
i What is the use of going to Montana,
Oregon, Washington or any other state
4 when the ordinary man can do in north
| ern Wisconsin what he cannot do any
| where else?
i The literature of the day addressed to
the homeseeking public is SO full of what
| the expert--the specialist-the extra
/ ordinary man-can do, that want in this
! article to talk about what the ordinary
man can do in the area of cheap unoc-
cupied lands of the northern Wisconsin
counties. The extraordinary man can
/ take care of himself.
/ Here the ordinary man can buy land
/ that will make fine home. No fancy
/ prices will prevail SO to SIS per acre,
within two to five miles of growing
railroad towns. A merely nominal pay
ment will suffice if the buyer proceeds
to improve and cultivate the land
The ordinary man can erect comfort
able buildings of cheap lumber, sawed
perhaps from logs taken from his own
land to nearby mill--or he may make
a log no use at practically no cost And
his supply of fuel is always at hand.
The ordinary man may secure the
purest of water at distances of twenty
to forty feet-no alkali just pure
! water.
/ The ordinary man can make fair
income while clearing this land and get
ting it ready for cultivation and he can
have work the year around.
The ordinary man can use this land
for the production of ordinary crops;
| with the culture of which he is familiar,
and for his crop there is an active lmme-
/ diate market. He doesn't have to lead
! a creeklet of water around over his land
/ with hoe, for it comes down from the
heavens as the Almighty intended it
should Nor does he have to go through
the straight jacket system eff dry farm
ing practices with their arduous toll and
doubtful results.
! The ordinary man will find that in this
area of northern Wisconsin lands, the
clovers grow in great profusion year
after year without killing as in other
regions, and he finds that his pastures
and hay have quality vastly different
from that of regions not adapted to
their best development. He finds the
climate and water (no alkalI) highly
adapted to the needs of the dairy cow,
of beef cattle and of the bacon hog, and
of sheep.
/ The ordinary man will find that his
land win produce all the ordinary crops
and that handsome returns come as the
result of ordinary farm practices. He
doesn't have to worry lest the dam go
out-his water comes from the skies
copiously and frequently and season
ably.
The ordinary man in the ordinary way
can grow crop of corn of the highest
silage value-al corn should be fed that
way and the irrigation that comes from
the skies has no alkali in it-but in the
old simple way he raises a magnificent
I crop.
/ The ordinary man operating in the or
binary way with his great clover pas
ture-prime every day from May to
November supplemented with corn sill
age, barley and peas, finds that he can
grow more and better bacon hogs to the
acre than any competitor.
The ordinary man in the ordinary way
determines that growing the finest OF
potatoes in the area of cheap lands in
northern Wisconsin is dependent not at
all on some old reservoir filling up with
sediment as every mill pond he ever saw
filed up sediment doesn't fill up his
4 reservoir
The pea canneries contract for his pea
crop which he grows in the old fashioned
way, with new appliances of course, 'anc
sells on the hayrack with returns OF
from $25 to $40 per acre, exclusive OF
any cost of water.
/ For sugar beets he gets $50 and S12t
per acre and half the pulp (Worth $1t
per acre), and when busy cultivating
/ his crop, doesn't have to dig out ditci
or argue out some intricate question o
water rights, lest drouth shall cast it
blight over his crop
| The ordinary mans clover seed crop
grown in the ordinary way-is no ordin
l ary crop at all but handsomely pay
ing one. | have before me the return
of ten acres $523 and several months
of fine pasturage and no charge TO
/ water, no filled creeklets around with
/ spirit level and hoe, rubber boots am
bad temper
III The ordinary man succeeds IN thi
r Il.