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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1914
Page
15
A. D. Campbell, former Wisconsin immigration commissioner, notes homeseekers flocking to Wisconsin. He cites higher butter prices, greater product per cow, and strong dairy gains since the last census. The state leads in alfalfa production and attracts newcomers as Western Canada homesteading declines.
Professor Taylor, university statistician, reports cheese profits are reasonable and middlemen costs are already low. He notes reducing handling costs will be hard and that increased production is the best long term defense against rising living costs.
More than forty thousand farms opened in northern Wisconsin under poorer conditions than today. Observing the fertile lands being cleared and turned into farms, bankers will see how WisconsIn money stays local, boosting wealth in these promising counties. Exchange.
The rapid growth of central and northern Wisconsin rural districts offers poor men a foothold. New settlers build substantial farms, clear land, and secure easy payment terms on five to ten acre clearings per forty or eighty acres. Lumber and building materials are cheap, boosting settlement and land values as investors attract actual settlers to affordable farms.
The Roth brothers, owners of a city store, recently added sixty Holstein cows to their mammoth farm south of Superior. They considered selling the farm but opted to keep it, spurred by Wisconsin’s optimistic era and their success in producing pork from alfalfa on the farm.
A live association in Wisconsin is described as the most active livestock breeders group in the Midwest. It works year round and reaches every corner of the state, unlike similar bodies in other states. The piece urges residents to appreciate the state breeders association.
Rural New Yorker potatoes, once from New York, are now said to be greatly improved in Wisconsin. County farmers specialize in the variety and its tubers gain foreign fame. Colorado buyers ordered a carload, while Wisconsin grain growers enhance barley rye goats and corn. The state earns a world wide reputation for nearly perfect seed grains.
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