Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-25
UPPER WISCONSIN
DRAWS SETTLERS
Five Thousand Sought Homes in
Northern Counties During
Last Year.
FIND SOIL is FERTILE,
Early Pasturage, Corn and Alfalfa
Become Sources of Prolific
Farmers.

Farmers.
(ByA. D. Campbell, Manager Wisconsin Advance
ment Association in Chicago Herald)
There is no unsettled or partly set
tied region on tho American continent
that compares favorably from the
homeseekers' standpoint with vast
stretches of upper Wisconsin.
This has been established so thor
oughiy, at least in the minds of the
homeseeking public, that more people
came to upper Wisconsin last year for
homes than to any other state.
5000 New Settlers.
Statistics show that more than 5000
new settlers came to upper Wisconsin
last year, largely to the counties of
Rusk, Marinette, Douglas, Bayfield,,
Oneida and Marathon. There is good
evidence that the number will be
greater this year. The three features
of hay, pasture and corn are attrac-
| tions for settlers
The fact that good pasture is earlier
in upper Wisconsin than in Indiana or
| Illinois will appear as strange to the
average reader as that the corn yield
of this region exceeded that of the
states mentioned, yet this Is establish
ed by government records.
Good Alfalfa Crops.
These facts are no more remarkable
than that the alfalfa yield of st. Croix
county last year was five tons to the
acre. recent census found that crop
growing In fifty sections of Oconto
county tits also true that during a
contest boy in the latter county pro-
duced 159 bushels of corn on an acre.
The cheap lands of upper Wisconsin
are adapted to the production of many
special crops. There are pea canning
factories in nearly al these counties,
and that crop pays splendidly. Sugar
beets, clover seed, tobacco, potatoes
and many other special crops bring at
tractive returns.
The piokling concerns of the middle
west are placing many factories and
sailing stations in upper Wisconsin
counties.
Close to Markets.
These counties are located not only
near great markets but every settle
ment has local market. Within this
district there are scores of villages and
small cities, some of them ranging up
to 10, 900 or 90, 900 inhabitants.
The fathers and mothers of the mid
die west are not overlooking the fact
that they may locate their sons and
daughters in this region of unsurpassed
fertility and be able to reach them at
any time within a nights ride in a
Pullman.
The district is traversed by through
lines of railway leading to all the
great cities. 1t is not necessary to To-
cate off well-made highway leading
to splendid village or city, and there
are the Usual convenisnces of well set
tied communities, such as rural mail
deliveries, telephones, bridges, school
houses, churches, stores and shops.
Low Interest Rates Prevail.
Wisconsin has settled, as far as the
matter can be settled, the problem of
farm loans. Any farmer who can make
a reasonable showing is able to obtain
a longtime loan at interest rates com.
parable with the best portions of the
fully settled middle west.
The program of the State Bankers
Association, Wisconsin Money for
Wisconsin Development, has become
an established fact. There is an album
dance of available capital. All the
unsettled land pays taxes. This is
distinct advantage over regions where
there are government or state lands
which do not pay taxes. In upper Wis
consin the whole area of the town
ships pays taxes toward the improve
ment in the settled portions. Thus a
settlement that perhaps now covers
two or three sections draws its fund
for improvement from a hundred or
more sections.
Rainfall Is Favorable.
Compared with other portions of the
middle west, there is less rainfall in
planting time, which enables the
ground to become warm and ready for
the crop, and more rain in the heated
period when it is needed to prevent
droughts.
Add to this a maximum of sunshine
and there is the secret of large and
continuous crops from a fertile soil.
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