Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-04-25
UPPER WISCONSIN
a FERTILE REGION
Farmers From Other Stat
es Attracted by LOW
Prices Buy Farms.

location. If so, is it not Strikingly
true that those that are greatest in
all that we value and cherish, and
especially in the farming and live
stock industries, are located silnil-
arly to the good old state of Wis
consin? will not stop to go deeply
into this matter, but just throw out
the suggestion for what it is worth
If my suggestion carries weight,
then it is not so remarkable that the
Wisconsin Experimental associa-
ton boys who go to the National
Corn show repeatedly bring back
the best awards? Why? Because
the soil and climate and spirit of
our people are in line with that of
the most prosperous and progress
sive peoples of the earth.
Nor, if there is anything in the
suggestion, is it strange that all the
states of the union and many for
eign countries-all OF them that
are alive to the desire for progress
are looking to Wisconsin for the
best livestock and the most poten-
tial seed grains and information as
to how to make the most of them.
And so Wisconsin is in the lime
light for good.
But the people of other states
find that their conditions will not
permit them to perpetuate the high
quality of breeding stock and seed
grains secured in Wisconsin. In
many portions of the country, cat
tie ticks and fevers attack their
stock and rust and blight and other
disease attack grains grown from
pure bred Wisconsin seed. And so
they have decided to come to Wis
consin, and this winter, in the
month of January, perhaps more
/ people came to Wisconsin for land
/ for future homes than in any
month in recent years. Are we of
Wisconsin going to continue Our
sleepiness in this matter and allow
the people of other states to get the
wonderfully fertile lands of upper
Wisconsin while they are yet cheap?
The situation in upper Wiscon-
sin has no parallel in the history of
agricultural development in Amer
ica-where railroads, cities and
towns, and even rural mail and tele-
phones have preceded settlement.
Nor has there ever been a time
when large areas of cheap lands
were bordered upon all sides with
the greatest markets Of the country.
l think it is literally true that all
things considered, the upper Wis
I consin counties have the best mar
kets to be found in the country.
1t is up to the people of Wiscon-
sin-and to the people of Milwau-
kee, whose manufacturers, bankers
and merchants should see the re-
suits of such development-to do
their part in the building of big
/ ger and richer state. And it is up
to the good fathers and mothers of
! W isconsin boys and girls to decide
whether they shall be located near
at hand where success demands on
ly activity and frugality or whether
they shall seek their fortunes in
distant regions where new condi-
tions are to be met with doubtful
I success.
The Wisconsin Advancement as
sociation is at the service of the
people of wisconsin. 1t has a fund
of information that is free. It's chief
dependence is upon the United
/ States census. 1t has concise tables
made from that census which you
may examine and the original docu-
ments are at hand for verifcation.
All the available weather data are
at hand for consultation.
The greatness Of wisconsin IS not
in quantity, but ratheI in what an
acre OF farm does. Other states
may grow more wheat or corn or
oats, but they do not grow more to