LANDOLOGY 39 



MARKETS FOR EVERYTHING. In !ess than twenty-four 



hours, any produce raised in 



Marinette County can be placed in the great central market, 

 Chicago, and we have a cheaper freight rate to Chicago than has 

 Springfield, Illinois. These low freight rates are due to the fact 

 that Marinette has one of the greatest harbors on Lake Michigan, 

 and the railroads have to meet this water competition in making 

 freight rates. 



Taking Chicago as a center you have within a radius of 300 

 miles the greatest industrial development of this country the 

 center of the farming industry, the center of manufacturing, popu- 

 lation, banking, best home markets, and the center of railroading. 

 Marinette County lies within this circle, which makes up the great- 

 est market district of America. 



HOME MARKETS ALWAYS BEST. You, of course, will rea- 



lize however, that the 



best market for any farming community- is a local market, and the 

 prices paid in local markets have a great deal to do with the value 

 of farm lands. In reality, markets have more to do with the value 

 of land from an agricultural standpoint, than soil or climatic condi- 

 tions. It is not the number of bushels per acre that a farmer can 

 raise so much as it is the net return per acre which he can realize 

 from that crop. Official reports show the entire state of Wisconsin 

 receives a greater net return per acre for its crops than any other 

 state in the Union. 



If you have made a study of the advantages offered by the 

 cut-over land districts where lumbering formerly flourished, you 

 are already aware of the fact that the markets were first created by 

 the towns built during the prosperous days of lumbering, and long 

 before the settlers took up the land. 



The great cities of Marinette and Menominee, which are really 

 one town, but are on opposite sides of the Menominee River, had a 

 joint population of over 30,000 before the farming lands of this 

 locality had been developed to any great extent. Previous to that 

 time the food supply for all of these 30,000 people as well as the 

 thousands of people in the smaller towns and villages, had to be 

 si lipped in from the great central markets of Chicago and Milwau- 

 kee. These home markets- are today able to absorb all that is 

 grown on the farm lands in this locality, and Chicago market prices 

 less freight prevail at practically all times at these home markets. 



AVOID LACK OF MARKETS. Without regard to the crop 



you raise, if the land on which 



you raise that crop is so located that it costs you more to market it 

 than the crop is worth, the land is absolutely valueless. Thousands 

 of farmers have in the past few years paid dearly for this informa- 



