Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-07-04
RUSK co. LAND OF OPPORTUNITY:
No Better Place For The Indus strious
Man to Make a Home

CThesis by D. E. Critchfield, deliv-
cred at Rusk County Training
School commencement June 19.)
The business of farming has at
tanned more prominence in the last
few years than ever before. Time
was when many persons considered
farming improbable and undesirable,
but science has elevated the farmer
to a position we'll worthy of our en-
Wy.
The worlds interest in the farmer
is shown by the fact that lawyers,
doctors and men from every W. Tx Of
life are all looking with longing eyes
toward the rural districts with the
hope Of obtaining a country home.
These facts show that Agriculture,
mans Oldest occupation, has at last
begun to waken up and take On new
life. We may be proud to live in a
country with such wonderful agricul-
tural possibilities as those of Nor
thern Wisconsin and especially Rusk
county.
But why is Wisconsin not more
| fully developed? Because the pas
cure looks green elsewhere" Land
companies in Texas, Florida and Can
ada are flooding Wisconsin with at
tractive literature picturing the won
derful possibilities of irrigated farm
ing in the Lone Star" state, fruit
growing in the reclaimed everglades
and the delightful things to be given
away in Sunny Southern Alberta"
SO degrees North Latitude. Mans
credulity and desire to "get rich
quick" make him an easy "catch" for
the land shark.
In 1912 about 100000 emigrants
went from the United States to Can
ada and over per cent of these
were Wisconsin people,
1t is estimated that about $780,
900 900 is carried from the United
States to Canada each year, Wiscon-
sins contribution in 1912 being ap-
proximately 100000 AS Wiscor sin and
Minnesota furnish the lions" share
of this loss to the United States is
it strange that these states should
suffer? Perhaps the emigrant goes
| to Canada because he thinks lands
there are cheaper, the soil more fer
| tile Or the market bHttar
Investigation shows the price of
| land in Canada to be as high in pro-
portion to real value as lands Of sim
liar location in Wisconsin.
Men who understand conditions
both in Wisconsin and in Canada
claim that more can be realized from
one acre of Wisconsin land planted
to potatoes, beets or tobacco than
| from ten acres of Canadian. land
planted to wheat There is scarcely
any limit to our possibilities. The
range of our crops extend from
wheat-Canada' s staple crop, to and
including fruits, corn, tobacco and
| great variety of others.
When the Wisconsin farmer sold
his barley for $1.02 per bushel and
his wheat at 92 cents per bushel, the
| Canadian farmer was selling his
wheat at So cents Alfalfa hay worth
$40 a ton in Wisconsin. was selling
at from $500 to $500 a ton in Can
| odo Tboco ctatomnotc oiva uc
| slight knowledge of our ability com
pared with that of Canada, but how
do we compare with other parts of
our country? The average yield OF
corn per acre in Iowa for the last
ten years has been 32.1 bushels, Il>
Illinois 347 bushels and in Wiscon-
sin 35.5 bushels Land in Rusk coun-
ty has produced as high as "a bush
els of corn per acre.
Among other things, Wisconsin is
the foremost state in the raising OF
thoroughbred cattle, and the produc-
ton of butter and cheese. Northern
Wisconsin is especially we'll adapted
to the production of these staple
products partly because of the great
amount of grass that may be pro-
duced to the acre. Two and three
tons of clover to the acre have been
raised by farmers throughout Rusk
county. Timothy and other grasses al
SO yield remarkably well.
We are fast coming to the fore
ground as a potato-raising county.
We have produced 200 and 800 bush
els per acre Farmers here report an
income of $4.00 per acre from the
strawberry crop.
This county is especially well To-
Gated with reference to markets,
Ladysmith being but hours ride
from the 'Twin Cities, hours from
the "Twin Ports" hours from Mil
Waukee and IL hours from Chicago
We are in touch with the world in
every direction and by both water
and rail. We are in touch with the