Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-12-02
SETTLERS PUSH
! BACK FRONTIER
Fourteen Hundred Families
Find Homes In Northern
Wisconsin

MadiSOn-The vast undevelOped ag
ricultural empire of Northern WiscOn
sin was entered by 400 families OF set
tiers during the year just ending, whf
occupied and started to develop ap
proximately 10000 acres of cut-ovel
timber land.
These pioneer farmers are pushing
back the frontier which holds 10000.
900 uncleared acres of property froE
cultivation, and gives Wisconsin its
great colonization problem. The in
creasing influx of settlers from the
middle western cities, according to q
NJ. Householder of the bureau OF immi
grafton. means the gradual opening OF
the states untouched agricultural re
sources.
Hundreds of Others
His report Of 140O new families OF
immigrants, is declared by him to bf
based on railroad returns TO the state
department Of agriculture, and IN
Guides only those settlers who entered
with full carload of goods in then
possession. Hundreds OF others may
have pushed their way into the new
country. but without record made OF
them.
The greater number of settlers have
graduated from the industrial centers
of the middle states into the realm OF
prospective home owners. Mr.. House
holder says. They have seen an oppor'
tunity to better themselves, he declares
and enter the undevelOped country
with a background of industriOusness
and farming methods learned largely in
the Scandinavian countries. Germany
and Poland
Coming to their SO-acre tracts the
newcomers usually turn to pioneer
methods and build themselves log
houses. made from timber Off their land.
Gradually they clear an area OF brush
and stumps and prepare to plant crops
that will afford a profitable adjunct
70 dairying which is almost uniformly
rhe principal industry of the settlers.
Homestead Tax Exemption
Once on the land the state, counties
and state university unite to extend
aid and advice. Tax exemption is
granted for three years while the prop"
erty is being developed, agricultural
agents give instructions i'll farming
methods and aid in explaining new lahd
clearing methods, while the university
furnishes information and through lrs
experiment station determines what
the farmers Of each section can most
profitably undertake with their prop
erty.
Many Of the same hardships and prl-
yations that were borne by pioneers
who originally opened up this state IL
settlement must be undergone by the
settlers in the cut-over regions OF the
north, Mr.. Householder says Rlg0f
ous winters call for hardy type OF SET
rley. while clearing operations, he says
require industriousness and willing
mes to work.
For those reasons the bureau or I'M
migration tries to encourage the more
industrious types of people, trained II
dairy farming to enter the state as set
tiers.
Railway Accessible
Early numbering which depleted TN
millions OF acres Of land OF their tim
Der, at the same time caused an eXten
sive railway system to be built In tn
northern counties of the state, Whic'
is said to afford exceptional facilities
for marketing products.
The Wisconsin trunk highway sys
tenn with patrol maintenance system
is said to give the settler additional
advantages in bringing his products l.
shipping centers.
At the present rate OF settlement AM
land clearing on vast tracts or unde
veloped land, it viii take 100 years be
fore the territory is all under cultiva
tion. There are said to be resource
sufficient to support population
several millions in the nndevelope
northern counties.