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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1914
Page
12
Wisconsin farmers increasingly pursue improved dairy stock, with business leaders backing stock incentives. Local counties organize cooperatives and bankers finance cattle imports, expanding cow herds. Carload shipments have begun in several counties, mainly in the south, signaling rising demand and competition as the north also wakes to the dairy opportunity.
Stephen Leacock opens a humorous serial in the July American Magazine about Mr. Boulder, an American millionaire who sells securities to English nobles by weaving tales of a timber rich Michigan hunting lodge. Titled visitors are drawn by vivid forest imagery, logs, and wild wolves, leading to rapid investment of their fortunes in Boulder’s securities.
Wisconsin farmers show average deposits above $1000 per farm with loans and investments surpassing that figure. Current funds exceed $2000 per farm in many cases, reflecting widespread home and farm improvements including electric lighting, septic tanks, and furnace heating. These gains attract homeseekers to central and northern Wisconsin as prosperity spreads.
A Farm and Fireside editorial questions whether farmers are good businessmen and explains why they pay high interest while earning low profits. It argues farmers are often not organized in money markets, urges collective effort to obtain cheaper credit, and notes government laws may only guide them to cheaper money, not guarantee success.
A Farm and Fireside excerpt by W. J. A. Smith argues hog fences and low-cost feeding can yield high returns, urging the new farmer to work hard and plan around seasons. It warns against reliance on labor, notes farm work as a strict master, and presents farming as a demanding but potentially rewarding path for resourceful individuals.
A dated meditation on progress and originality argues that men should move beyond copying the past. It urges individuals to consider humanity and civilization, acting with flexible, moral perception rather than nationalistic limits, citing Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A New England farmer, David Buffum, argues in Farm and Fireside that a man with some capital can start farming more easily than one without. He does not fully discourage capitalless entry and bases his advice on practical, experience rooted guidance, stressing that farming requires exceptional hard work.
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