Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-04-11
Wood County National Bank.
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS.
ANOTHER UPPER
WISCONSIN TRIP


1t is with pleasure that The Wis
consin Farmer announces that the new
state development committee of the
Milwaukee Association of Commerce,
pins in northern Wisconsin maps pre-
paratory to making "get acquainted"
tour of this wonderful region of prom
Use and fullfillment.
The trip will be made early this
summer by special train, carrying
about 100 prominent business men and
numerous leaders in the banker-farmer
movement. The Wisconsin Bankers
Association and the extension depart
ment of the college of agriculture are
also deeply interested in the trip.
Itineraries will soon be made up, en-
bracing all Of the prominent points of
interest
Business and manufacturing inter
ests of Upper Wisconsin have always
regarded these trips on the part of
their southern friends with keen rel
ish, as it gave them a chance to be
hospital and show the guests how
rapidly the new country to the north
was being built up. Needless to say,
back of it all rests the farmer and the
dairy COW. Without these two agen-
cies for development the financial fu-
ture would not be so rosy.
Let US suggest in passing, however,
that the men from the south who make
the trip resolve that they see the land
in the making, and not be content with
casual chats at banquets and in hotel
corridors.
They probably intend to visit num-
Der of leading farms, but that alone
won't do. They must do as B. G.
Packer, commissioner of immigration
often does on his trips up north-go
out by the blackboard and auto into the
newly developed areas, where valiant
men are carving out homes among the
stumps. A visit to such new farm
in the slashings means two things: 1t
means renewed confidence on the part
of the merchant and banker in the in
tegrity of the settler and his credit
and it means pleasant thoughts to the
settler himself, as he does his chores
in the small barn after the delegation
has paid its respects to his courage
and loyalty.
A representative of The Wisconsin
Farmer will never forget the impress
sions he got last week while looking
over a new place near Wausaukee,
Marinette county. The owner, a rug
ged man with wife and three young
children, with the aid of his brother
on an adjoining farm, had cleared
siXty-five acres for cultivation out of
the eighty acres on the place in less
than three years. Forty acres were
cleared for the pillow the first spring.
This last summer on the siXty-five
acres this man raised enough feed for
twenty cows and six horses and has
built stave silo. He paid $50 an acre
for the land originally, making quar-
ter payment. Today, he said, land in
his vicinity was held at S65 an acre.
This is only a meager instance, but
it goes without saying that we left
the farm with a surer belief that Wis
consin will help win the war, even as
one speaker said recently, "f the
farmers have to do it alone" The
settler we visited said that clearing
was hard work, but added that it was
very interesting" and expressed a
hope that he would have all of his
place in shape for crops next year
This is the sort of men whom we hope
the real estate brokers and merchants
will introduce to the Milwaukee dele
cation. Unless they do introduce
them they will fail to bring together
the two most vital links in the chain
of Wisconsin advancement.-The Wis
cOnSin Farmer