LANDOLOGY 



Our growth has been beyond precedent or parallel. Our 

 increase in population, from 4,000,000 in 1790 to 110,000,000 in 1918 

 is unequaled in the world's history. 



Marinette County, Wisconsin, with her splendidly productive 

 low priced lands, not only offers the greatest farming opportunity 

 today, but it is one of the few remaining localities where there are 

 good new farm lands to take care of our ever-increasing population. 



NOT ENOUGH LAND FOR ALL. While our population has 



increased by 26 per cent, 



during the last decade, the area of improved farm land has 

 increased less than five per cent, and a further increase of nine per 

 cent, will include all the remaining land that at present can be 

 cultivated. 



When our fathers were born (and many of them are still 

 living), there were 17,000,000 people in the United States in 

 1840 but the last count reveals a population of 110,000,000. 



Yes, we have multiplied multiplied by 500 per cent, during 

 the full time of one life, and before the young men of today are 

 old men, at our present rate of increase, we will have a population 

 of over 400,000,000 and when the children of today are in middle 

 life this country, at our present rate of increase will have a popula- 

 tion of more than 1,000,000,000. Where will the farm land be 

 found to feed these 1,000,000,000 people, and what do you think 

 will be the value of an acre of land which you could buy now for 

 $25? 



In addition to the regular increase of the 110,000,000 our 

 present population we must look forward to the care of our 

 immigrants of the future. The last Government reports show 

 10,000,000 immigrants for the past ten years; two and one-half 

 times as many as for the preceding decade, and 75 per cent more 

 than for 1880-1890. 



LARGE INCREASE IN VALUE OF FARM LAND. 



The last few years have witnessed a phenomenal increase in 

 the value of farm lands. The chief reason for this is, of course, 

 the increase in population, the fact that nearly all of the public 

 land suitable for agricultural purposes has been taken up, and the 

 natural tendency of people in congested centers to get back to 

 the soil. 



There have been less than one billion minutes of time since the 

 beginning of the Christian Era, and yet farm property in this 

 country increased in value more than twenty-one billions in less 

 than ten years, or in other words, more than 118 per cent ; but the 

 number of farms increased only 11 per cent. 



