Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-02-04
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NORTH WISCONSIN
LAND OF PROMISE
The Ordinary Man Can Do in
Northern Wisconsin What He
Cannot Do Elsewhere.
Merrill Daily Herald.

The literature of the day addressed
to the homeseeking public is so full of
what the expert-the specialist-th
extraordinary man-can do, that |
want 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 prevail-$1O to SIS pei acre,
within two to- five miles of growing
railroad towns. A merely nominal
payment will suffice if the buyer pro-
ceeds to improve and cultivate the
land
The ordinary man can erect comfor-
table buildings of cheap lumber, sawed
perhaps from logs taken from his own
land to nearby mill-or he may make
log house 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 wa
ter.
The ordinary man can make fair
income while clearing this land and
getting it ready for cultivation and he
can have work the year around.
The ordinary man eau use this land
for the production of ordinary crops,
with the culture of which he is fami-
liar, and for his crop there is an active
immediate market He doesn't have
to lead a creeklet of water around over
his Iarm with hoe, for 1t comes down
fnom the heavens as the Almighty in
tended it should Nor does he have to
go through the straight-jacket system
of dry-farming practices with their ar
duo, 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 winter killing
as in other regions, and he finds that
his pastures and hay have a quality
vastly different from that of regions
not adapted to their best development.
He finds the climate and water mo
alkalD 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 will 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 frequent and seasonably.
The ordinary man in the ordinary
way can grow a crop of corn of the
highest silage value-all 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 crop.
The ordinary man operating in the
ordinary way, with his great clover
pasture-prime every day from May to
neutrality-suspicious. with corn
silage, barley and peas, finds that ne
can grow more and better bacon hogs
to the acre than any competitor, and
he doesn't have to pore over pages OF
of "dry farming text books either.
The ordinary man in the ordinary
way determines that growing of the
finest of potatoes in the area of cheap
lands in northern Wisconsin is Deepen
dent not at all on some old reservoir
filled up with sediment as every mill
pond he ever saw filled up-sediment
doesn't fill up his reservoir.
The pea canneries contract for his
pea crop which he grows in the old
fashioned way, with new appliances of
course, and sells on the hayraek with
returns of from $25 10 $40 per acre,
exclusive of the cost of seed. exclusive