A Good Load of Lumber Hauled to Mattoon for Shipment Dairying Wisconsin has no equal in the world in the number and importance of her creameries and cheese factories. The Secretary of the Wisconsin Butter Makers' Association says in a published report: "The products of the Wisconsin dairy interests aggregate thirty-five million dollars a year. The value of butter produced in one year is twenty million dollars. Cheese to the value of ten million dollars is manufactured.  In Illinois corn is king, but in Wisconsin the cow is queen." Our section of the country is the place above all others for the dairyman. The cost of keeping cows is reduced to the minimum. (See the free pasturage offer in the paragraph on "Stock Raising"). All dairy products bring good prices, on account of an ever-ready market. A country that can produce high-grade milk for cheese-making must also produce fine butter under skillful management. This is quite evident in Northern Wisconsin. While the cheese industry should certainly prove an easy leader in dairying, those who do not want to engage in it can turn their attention to the creamery system of butter-making. It seems hardly fair for a farmer to expect his wife and daughters to add butler-making to their regular household duties when this rather laborious work can easily be shifted from the farm to the creamery. An expert cheese and butter-maker has opened a large creamery and cheese factory near Mattoon, where all the cream and milk you can produce will find a ready and profitable market. There are 1,700 cheese factories and 1,200 creameries in the State of Wisconsin alone. Successful for 33 years We have lived on our farm, one mile from the village of Mattoon, 33 years, and have always raised good crops, and have never experienced any difficulty in disposing of our farm product at good prices.  We have under cultivation 60 acres, and none of it is for sale. Yours truly, BARBARA LANGE, JOHN LANGE Peterson's Creamery, One Mile from Mattoon. Farm home of Herman Kolpack, quarter mile from church and three-quarters mile from school. Farm home of Fred. Kolpack. Stock Raising The moderate winters, cheapness of building material, abundant and rich pasturage, live springs and streams, make this locality ideal for profitable stock-raising. There is pasturage for your cattle and sheep on the unoccupied lands during all the seasons, absolutely without cost to you. All domestic animals thrive well, and where stock-raising is combined with general farming, the profits are large and certain. SHEEP.—Sheep do extremely well here. Both sheep-raising and wool-growing bring fine profits. It has long passed the experimental stage, as you will see by the flocks of' fine animals kept, by many of your future neighbors. HOGS.— In a partly cleared country, pigs invariably do well, and on our property they can be raised at small cost. Large profits are sure on account of the ready market in the mining towns of Northern Michigan and Wisconsin. Moreover, the lumber camps situated less than a hundred miles to the north make a steady demand on our settlers for hogs and hog products. The price obtained at Mattoon therefore is equal to that paid on board cars at Chicago. Speaking of the food best suited to swine, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture says: "Oats are very useful for feeding swine, provided they are used judiciously. Because of the hull which the oat grain carries, this feed cannot be used so generally as corn or peas, yet some can always be given to hogs with marked advantage. At our Wisconsin Experiment Station it was found that where the feed of the hogs consisted of two-thirds oats and one-third corn meal 568 pounds of the grain mixture made 100 pounds of gain. Again where only one-third of the ration consisted of oats and two-thirds of corn meal, 100 pounds of gain was made with 492 pounds of the mixture. "In summing up the results in these trials Prof. Henry states that the best results ever obtained in any trial at this Station with hogs as old as these, were secured when the ration consisted of one-third ground oats and two-thirds corn meal. He further intimates that for older hogs, especially brood sows, when maintenance and not rapid gain is desired, the experience of some of our most careful stockmen shows that oats can be fed unground with the best results.'' Camp Life Near Mattoon Ten Years Progress in Shawano County HON. W. H. MYLREA, Secretary of the Wisconsin Advancement Association, is authority for the statement that the history of Shawano County during the past ten years is the story of most of the northern comities in the State. There is no part of the United States where low-priced land has increased so rapidly in price. There is no place that can show mere substantial improvement in the value of farm lands than in the County of Shawano. The population in Shawano during the last decade increased nearly 4,500 people. On account of large forest areas and Indian reservations, less than 50 per cent, of the land in Shawano County has as yet been taken for farm purposes. While Sheboygaii County increased in farm values 46 per cent., Shawano County farm lands increased 130 per cent., as appears from the Census Bulletin. It also appears from the same Bulletin that the number of native-born farmers in Shawano Co. is 1,545, while those foreign-born number 1,967. Those figures do not fully express the real condition. Anyone familiar with the facts during the last twenty years realizes that the bulk of the lands developed is the work of foreigners or their descendants. Many of the immigrants from Europe bring their families with the view of securing a piece of land for each boy and girl. As soon as possible these young people are placed upon farms, and it is safe to say that at least 75 per cent, of the farmers of Shawano and adjoining counties are of foreign descent. Trained to habits of labor and of saving, combined with natural industry, they have worked wonders throughout this region. Shawauo County during the last decade increased its farm values in round numbers from $9,000,000 to $21,000,000. Thus, with two-thirds of the acreage of Sheboygan County, the increase in farm values during that decade was over $12,000,000; while Sheboygan County, with her highly developed industries, increased only $10,000,000. The last Census of the United States discloses the astonishing fact that our Shawano farm lands were worth $17.27 an acre in the year 1900, while in the year 1910 the price was $35.05 per acre. These figures show the absolute certainty of the increase in land values in the northern half of the State. The man who secures a piece of good land is absolutely certain that the price will increase, and no investment that the average man can make will produce such results iri so few years. The land we are offering you is among the best of that describeed in Hon. Mr. Mylrea's report.