Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-07-28
ADVERTISING CAMPA A|GN
OPPORTUNE TIME TO BOOST
RUSK COUNTY
ALL FARMERS CAN Be BOOSTERS
Bring in Specimens of Products and
Record of Yield.-Send Us Names
of Prospective Settlers

mer to secure the settling of cur va
cant land as rapidly as possible. With
increase of settlement comes increase
of production and as consequence
better markets. The greater the
amount of farm products handled the
smaller the margin necessary for hand
ling them and the greater the COM
petition, both factors working for
better prices. Increased production
will also bring creameries, cheese fac
tories, canneries, picking stations,
ETC., all working to the same end, bet
ter markets and higher prices. Spread
of settlement will bring more and bet
ter roads, better schools, more agree
able social life, and lower taxes on ac-
count of greater wealth to bear the
burden of taxation.
The interest of the farmer in pro-
noting settlement is plain, but not
every farmer realizes that it is in his
power to do much toward that end, and
without great effort. Among the first
questions asked by the landseeker are,
What can you raise? How much can
you raise? What is being accomplished
by the farmers now here? You, Mr..
Farmer, can answer these questions,
and your answer will carry much more
weight than the word of anyone else.
BY bringing in and placing with some
one who will exhibit them samples of
your various products, you can demon
strate in the most striking way the
productivity of the soil. By noting the
yield of your crops per acre and giving
it publicity, you can assist greatly in
convincing landseekers of the desir-
ability of our county. If you will go
step further and keep record of the
income from your cows during the
year, or of the income from your farm,
YOU can furnish another valuable ad-
vertisement for the country. These
things will not require great deal of
work on your part, and will not only
serve to help advertise the country,
but will stimulate your own and your
neighbors' interest in farming, and
tend to bring about better methods of
cultivation by melting competition.
We would be very glad to assist in
campaign of this sort, and if you will
bring to this office exhibits of your
best products, we will see that they
are so placed as to be seen by visitors
to the city. If you will drop in and
tell us the results of your crops, the
yield of your farm, the income from
your dairy. or any other interesting
fact in this line, we will be glad to
give it publicity. Now, don't be over
modest. Don't jump at the conclusion
that your crops are only ordinary, and
that your neighbors can beat you.
Bring in samples or reports of the
best you have, and even if it doesn't
happen to be the biggest it will help in
the good work.
In this connection we would like to
secure mailing list of few hundred
farmers or near-farmers, residing in
the middle west, who might be induced
to locate in North Wisconsin. Much
of the efforts of our real estate men
appear to have been productive of To-
eating on wholly unimproved land men
from the thickly populated centres,
totally void of experience as farmers,
who make a small initial payment,
leave their work in the city and pick
around unsystematically in the brush
awhile, get homesick, throw up their
contracts and add their experience to
the many failures made by amatuers
in irving to hew farm out of our cut
over lands.
What are we going to do with this
mailing list? Going to send the News
Budget to them and make them SUBJ
scribers whether they want the paper
or not? No; nor we are not going into
the real estate business either-at
least not at present. In the absence
of any central organization to handle
such matter, the News-Budget will
present copy Of this mailing list i'm
partially to every real estate man in
Ladysmith. Not one OF them adver-
tises ten cents worth week in Ou1
columns, but they are all supplied with
advertising matter and we want them
to send it out and let your friends
know about Rusk County in genera
and Ladysmith in particular. Incident
ally, when the supply of advertising
, matter is exhausted, perhaps we may
have an opportunity to print some
more; if not, some other printer will
and Rusk county may have more prac
tical farmers added to her population