| The soil in our tract will produce in abundance every crop known to
the temperate region, while cereals average more to the acre than in any
other Northern State.
It is the greatest dairy and stock country in the world.
There is an abundance of pure running water and many spring water lakes.
The climate is bracing and there is no malaria.
There is a handy market for every stick of wood you can cut from your
place. If you want to work for others, the local lumbering and manufacturing
interests offer constant employment at good wages.
The possibilities for development in Shawano County are fully as good
as they are farther south in Wisconsin where the land was also heavily
timbered, but is now one of the most beautiful and fertile regions in the
world.
Ex-Governor Siofield of Wisconsin says:
Northern Wisconsin Excels In Forage Crops
"As a pioneer resident in Northern Wisconsin, I want to add my testimony
as to its value and promise as an agricultural region. All Northern Wisconsin
will some day be renowned far and wide as a dairy region. It is adapted
to the successful growing of most crops that can be raised in the southern
counties of the State, and it so far excels the older countries in growing
forage crops
that its particular sphere is thus clearly defined."
The Farmer's Review, a responsible and conservative
agricultural publication says:
Opportunity for Men With Limited Means
"Every man who intends to buy land for farming purposes should ascertain
facts about the soil, climate, and adapted crops of the section where he
proposes to settle. A great many people are now going into North Central
Wisconsin, in Shawano County, and have found a good opportunity for securing
cheap land and making a home. The writer has looked up the resources of
this section, and finds that a great variety of crops may be grown here
with profit.
"This is going to make a great dairy section. Grasses thrive and are
very rich. These, with pure water and the bracing atmosphere, make it an
ideal section for dairying and sheep raising. On the new laud potatoes
make a very profitable crop, and are comparatively free from rot. This
is also a great oat section; the climate, moisture and season being highly
favorable for the production of the finest berry. In fact, about everything
in the way of field or vegetable crops may be grown here except corn. This
is out of the corn belt, yet some of the early dent varieties have been
tested with success.
"The Wisconsin Timber & Land Co., of Mattoon, Shawano County, Wisconsin,
will give you accurate and honest information about lands here. They own
about ten thousand choice acres, and are putting this on the market on
very liberal terms. This is not a prairie country. It is a timber country,
and right here is where the man with limited means can make a home for
his family in a few years. With the best grasses, fine water, all small
grains, wonderful root and vegetable crops, get a small farm and it will
be easy sailing.
"While you are developing your own farm there is opportunity here in
the woods and saw mills at good day wages. In fact anyone who wants to
strike out for himself can "make good" here if he will get down to business.
What the people of this country desire is the man who will pitch in and
help develop the country. If you are that kind we surely advise you to
write to the above company for detailed information. What is the use of
renting when, with a few hundred dollars, you can make a payment on a piece
of land and in a few years own it outright. Investigate. That's the thing
we advise you to do."
Part of our land is covered with magnificent forests of maple, birch,
basswood, elm and white oak. These forests are like great temples, the
tall stems of the trees rising like columns, from 40 to 60 feet high, without
a limb.
There is little or no underbrush, and the whole prospect has an open,
hospitable look, while the sunlight is scarcely obstructed. Along the open
spaces, where timothy or clover seed has been accidentally dropped, great
crops of white-top and red-top spring up with no encouragement in the way
of cultivation. From two to three tons of timothy and redtop to the acre
is but an ordinary crop.
The lands for the most part are level, inclined in some parts to be
rolling, but there are no deep ravines or high hills. The beautiful lakes
and streams for which Wisconsin is celebrated are at their best in Shawano
County. They are not large, but plentiful, and there is an abundance of
game and excellent fish, such as brook trout, in the streams, and bass,
pickerel, etc. in the lakes.
We have sold a great deal of this land to men who worked in our mills
and factories and to their friends, as well as to farmers already located
here, but this is the first time we have offered any of it to the general
public. The inducements which we offer in the way of cheap transportation,
assistance to newcomers in getting started, and assurance of steady work
and a good market, as well as very easy terms of payment, make this an
ideal proposition for the man who wants to start right, and make an
independent living.
Good Place for all kinds of Farming
I purchased 80 acres of land about 4 1/2 miles
from Mattoon about a year ago and am well pleased with my investment, and
can cheerfully recommend this country as being all right for all kinds
of farming.
Yours truly,
LEWIS WILLING.
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