LANDOLOGY 13 



You who are renting and developing another man's land should 

 develop your own land. If you do not, the time will come for 

 regrets a time too late when you will envy the man who acted 

 when you did not. You farmers who have had your opportunity in 

 taking up cheap lands and becoming wealthy by their development, 

 should see that your sons have the same chance. The land near 

 home is probably beyond their reach; let them go where they can 

 get low priced land that will increase in value rapidly. 



VALUE OF TIMBER LAND. Today, everyone realizes that 



timber land has a very rich soil, 



and that it is wonderfully productive after the trees, stumps and 

 brush are removed. 



Farm land can no longer be bought in the older settled parts 

 of the country at prices which those just starting in their life's 

 work can afford to pay. Such people must look elsewhere for 

 land, just as their fathers and grandfathers did. It does ot require 

 exceptional reasoning to determine that any land which could 

 produce such a wonderful crop of timber as did the land of Mari- 

 nette County, Wisconsin, could not help but be extremely 

 productive. In other words, timber land is the best land which 

 can be had today at a reasonable price when the question of 

 fertility, nearness to markets, schools, highways, churches, railroads 

 and all other desirable features are taken into consideration. 



PROFIT BY THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS. Early in the 



settlement of 



this country our forefathers learned the vital value of water, and 

 the relative worthlessness of mere land without water. They 

 settled first in the east where luxuriant natural growth bespoke 

 productivity. Nearly every acre cultivated by these pioneers 

 yielded large returns. Such was the land on which America's 

 tremendous development was started and based a land well 

 watered by moderate rainfall and accumulated moisture, generally 

 well drained by clear streams, and rendered fertile through the 

 by-products of vegetable growth deposited from the timber during 

 unnumbered years. 



This natural home for a people however, was sadly abused by 

 short-sighted and greedy farming methods, which have exhausted 

 the fertility of the soils of the east, but you can take up land in 

 Marinette County of exactly the same character where there has 

 been absolutely no depreciation of the original fertility of the land. 



LAND WITHOUT WATER WORTHLESS. Water and not land 



; sets the limit of 



population and production. It has been estimated that if all our 

 two billion acres in America had rainfall enough to be productive 



