LANDOLOGY 27 



CLEARING NOT DIFFICULT. There was a time fifty years 



ago when it used to be said 



that it took a man a lifetime to clear eighty acres of timber land. 

 There was a time when the mails of the United States were carried 

 by men on horseback; today you can mail a letter and have it 

 delivered the following day in a city five hundred miles distant at 

 an expense of two cents. 



The same advance has been made in clearing land. It is noth- 

 ing unusual today for settlers to move into Marinette County in the 

 month of March and have forty acres ready for crops the same 

 season. The grub-hoe methods of clearing land are today just as 

 much behind modern methods as the cradle and reaper are behind 

 the modern binder. A better knowledge of cheap modern land 

 clearing machinery is today making farms out of the lands of 

 Marinette County twice as fast, and at half the cost of ten years 

 ago. 

 THE COLLEGES HELP. Today the great Agricultural College 



of the state of Wisconsin is maintain- 

 ing a land clearing department. This department several times 

 each year organizes a special train and makes trips of six weeks or 

 more throughout the cut-over lands giving demonstrations of the 

 proper methods in land clearing. It has been found that the prob- 

 lem of clearing land is more simple and less expensive than anyone 

 had supposed. 



The one-man stump puller which can be bought at one-half the 

 cost of a good horse will efficiently clear any land to be found in 

 Marinette County. The machines with which one horse or a team 

 are used can be operated somewhat faster, and such machines can 

 be had at about the cost of a horse. 



CO-OPERATION IN CLEARING. Before we leave this subject 



we want you to thoroughly 



realize the fact that the land clearing bugaboo no longer exists. 

 Co-operative methods are being carried out among the settlers by 

 which a given neighborhood will buy a stump pulling machine, each 

 sharing his part of the cost proportionately. In many cases all of 

 the neighbors who jointly own the stump puller work together as 

 a crew and clear land on first one farm and then another. When 

 handled in this way the cost to each settler for clearing operations 

 is greatly lessened. 



One thing which it is well to keep in mind is the fact that when 

 stumps are once gone they are gone forever. 



LOCATION OF OUR LANDS. Marinette County borders on 



Green Bay and the great Menom- 



inee River, and is on the forty-fifth parallel, being just half way 

 between the Equator and the North Pole. 



There are five railroad lines serving the county The C. & N. 



