The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-07-20

MdluS loiuS, VI dly otncl Vi ile re-
sources of this State, if found in any
state west of The Mississippi would
be considered of sufficient importance
to warrant the maintenance of q
complete advertising and publicity
staff, as we'll as the expenditure Of
thousands of dollars in ind cling set
tiers to come.
The foundation of every extensive
business venture is good advertising
Western states appreciate the value OF
| advertising more than does the East
They devote large sums of money
and much energy to it. AS old and
staid a state as New York, however
has been as industriously advertised
as any of them. Niagara Falls, Sara
toga. the state house at Albany and
the Brooklyn bridge, were once the
chief stock in trade. Just now it is
big railroad terminal, tunnel or
two, and huge reservoir.
Maine has few of the spectacular
works of man with which to arrest
the attention of curious world, but
the State is rich in the wonderful
handiwork of nature. One must
stand on bold headland and hear
the roar of the surf, climb to the sum-
NIT of rocky hill or tramp among
the cathedral pines to get any con-
option OF these works of God.
One who has had such an expert
ence tells his work-weary neighbors
Of the city, as best he can, of his ex-
perience, and urges him to come and
drink at this fountain of youth. The
second pilgrim tells a third, and so
on until the journeyings of few as
sumo the proportions of pilgrim
age. That, in brief, is the history of
Names advertising. The greatest
and best work has been done by those
who have seen and felt the wonders
of a summer vacation in Maine. A
summer visitor is Names best adver-
Using medium. Not only have sum-
mer tourists sent other vacationists
in large numbers but they have also
taken note of some of our great
natural resources, such as water
power and mineral wealth.
Maine is an industrial State. Her
tremendous water powers spell OPP
portunity, not only for the millionaire
investor, but for the man of small
means who is looking for cheap pow
er and ideal industrial conditions. Her
great factories, which represent an
investment of 150,000000, give en-
ployment to $4,000 men and women,
who fashion products worth $150,000,-
600 every year
There is a school building for every
forty scholars, and $40 per capita is
availa BILE for the education of the
children. Since many leave school
before they attain the age of twenty
one, the sum per capita actually
spent is appreciate more than $40.
A modern system of school aid and
superintendent enables the son of a
farmer in the rural districts to get
as good an education as his city
cousin. The State deals literally
with her schools, as she considers
them a valuable asset.
WHAT MAINE FARMS ARE DOING.
Maine farms, cultivated according
to Maine methods, yield more dollars
per acre than do the farms of Iowa,
Kansas or Nebraska-three great
gricultursl states. In Maine the
farmer takes $41 from each acre;
Iowa, 50. 40; in Kansas, 10 and in
Nebraska, 1874; yet Maine land is
selling as low as $25 an acre and
Iowa land at about 800. This state
of affairs will not exist long.
Maine land is worth more because
it produces more than similar land in
other states. Let us take the five
great agricultural states of Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas
five states which have lured thous-
ands of sons of Maine from the old
Pine Tree State-and compare the
yield, worth and price of seven lead
ing farm crops-corn, wheat, oats,
hay, potatoes, barley and buckwheat,
agricultural report.
Maine farmers raised corn worth
more than half a million dollars in
1909. They averaged to harvest $50
bushels of corn per acre as reward
for their seed and labor, while Illinois
farmers harvested only 1853 bushels;
Iowa famers 31.5 bushels; Nebraska
farmers 24.8 bushels; Kansas farmers
1919 bushels; and Texas farmers Is
bushels. This crop was worth $31.41
per acre at the farm in Maine; $780,
in illinois,; 1854 In Iowa; $12 40 In
Nebraska; $10.75 In Kansas, and
$11.40 In Texas, The average for
the country was only $15. 20.
Corn was selling at the farm in
Maine on Oct. /, 1909, at IS cents a
bushel, while the farmers Of Illinois
were getting 62 cents; those of Iowa,
SO cents; of Nebraska. So cents; of
Kansas, So cents; and OF Texas, "A
cents; while the average price
throughout the country was but GIL
cents.
In other words, the Maine farmer
raised more bushels Of corn to the
acre and got more cents for every
bushel than did the farmers o. l.,
inois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska end
Texas, all states which have been
held up as agricultural Eldorados.
The Maine farmer cultivated less land,
got more from 1t per acre, and his
land had larger productive value
than his competitors In the five states
named, and many others.
Maine did not raise enough winter
wheat to be tabulated, but she did
raise more than a quarter Of mil
lion dollars worth of spring wheat
in 1909. The average product per
aora moe OK < hurhala against IT