CLEARING LAND IN THE LAKE STATES. 25 



A tripod or a boom piler is recommended to facilitate piling and 

 burning. 



The settler with little capital and without experience who expects 

 to make a farm out of a tract of logged-off land will find his problem 

 a most trying one. The experiences of those who have attempted it 

 are not encouraging. The man who starts farming with even 10 

 acres of his farm cleared will be much more likely to succeed than the 

 man who begins on a tract covered with second growth and stumps. 

 The former will have land on which to grow hay and other crops the 

 first year. He can devote his extra time the first three or four years 

 to the disposal of the second growth on the remainder of his tract. 

 By seeding this, he will increase the area of his pasture or hay land 

 materially and will be employing the best preparatory means of 

 reducing the cost of stumping later. The settler should not forget 

 that the cheapest and best land clearing is always done by experienced 

 men with proper equipment. 



For these reasons it is recommended that, in all localities where 

 land companies are selling lands to settlers, no tract of land be sold 

 unless it contains at least 10 acres of land cleared ready for the plow. 



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