Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-01-21

LAG iuQ uiIeS VI IDc SCGUlcTS HS 10 JueiT
experiences. They had but few hun
dred dollars when they came. They
have lived well, and haven't over
worked. Their clearings have grown,
their herds have increased and their
lands have increased in value. They
have had no crop failures, no droughts,
no hot winds, no cyclones and nc
foods. They have encountered none
of the problems of the arts of dry fern.
ing or the science of irrigation agricul,
'ture-they have been confronted by
neither the hazardous transportation
of perishable products nor tickle mar,
ket beyond personal contact. Their
market takes their produce at the high
est price and supplies their wants at
the lowest cost.
These cut-over hardwood lands may
be purchased at low price-generally
at from S. to Sis per ecre on reasonable
terms. The initial payment usually
depends upon whether improvement
Is to be made at once-in such case a
very small payment will suffice. The
cost of clearing varies greatly-but in
any case is we'll repaid in the increased
value of the land. Whether the set
tier clears his farm rapidly or slowly,
he has an assured living-he can work
out if he likes at any tine-and has a
home of which he can be an indepen-
dent lord and master.
What of the future? This area is
specially suited to da'rying and stock
raising. The clovers, alfalfa and peas
thriue wonderfully and assure that
these lands need never be lacking in
nitrogen which is SO essential in land.
Glover ploysd under adds humus. Barn
yard manure furnish phosphorus and
other nssential ingredients. This as
sures continual fertility without the
heavy outlay for commercial fertilizer,
common to most sections. Settlers
should construct silos as soon as posi-
BILE, as northern Wisconsin corn makes
wonderfully valuable silage, the form
in which corn should be fed. Analysis
has sho wn the clover and alfalfa of
this region to be superior in protein
than that of southern sections-a very
interesting fact to the dairyman and
stockraiser.
Throughout this great area are al
most numberless magnificent water
powers, the early development of
which will be forced by the increasing
cost of coal. Many are now developed
and at each prosperous manufactur-
ing town is springing up. The process
of Harvesting these powers is cantin
ually going on.
The effect of these industries, and
the cities they are building, on the in
creased future values of farms in his
section should be matter of intense
interest to home seekers. The fact
that improved FIRMS in this partially
settled area are held rronnd 500 per
acre is suggestion of their future
worth when the country is fully devel
oped industrially as well as agricul-
turally.
The writer of this article has no de-
sire to minimize irrigation and dry
farming as features in our agricultural
activita-far from it, for both must be
looked upon as finally necessary. But
/ believe them to be movements that
should be prosecuted by men of exper-
fence, wide adaptibility, and, especial
ly, of ample means. In this view l am
supported by the experts of the federal
department, and l believe,
by all the essential elements of the
The men of means and experience
and speculative instinct who go to
those distant points to win or lose all
in their efforts deserve the plaudits of
all. Let them do it while people with
out expert ability or means to hazard
are developing our fertile Wisconsin
areas into fine farms with beautiful
homes.