ANNOUNCEMENT. 
It may interest our friends and customers to learn that our Mr. M. Craw- 
ford has agreed to spend this year at Shiocton, Wisconsin, in the interests of 
the Shiocton Garden Land Company. This company has purchased the Shiocton 
Marsh, a tract of land approximately four miles long and two miles wide, and 
containing about four thousand acres of level, black soil of inexhaustible fertility. 
A small fortune has been spent in draining it, and now it is proposed to grow oit 
it crops of everything raised by farmers and truckers in that climate, with and 
without fertilizers, to ascertain what, if any, elements are lacking in the soiL 
With the exception of seven hundred acres of timothy meadow, that has pro- 
duced crops for thirteen years, the land has never been plowed. Nor has it been 
under water to any great extent. The Green Bay & Western Railroad, in entering: 
Shiocton, runs through this tract, the west end of which comes up to the town. 
A large area on the part nearest town will be planted this year, and will be re- 
ported upon from week to week in the horticultural department of a weekly paper 
published in Shiocton. Mr. Crawford will superintend the work, and edit the 
horticultural department of the paper. He will grow his bulbs on this land,, 
having a contract to raise about two million for Vaughan's Seed Store, in addi- 
tion to his own. Any person interested is cordially invited to see his collection,, 
which will speak for itself any time after July 15th. 
Mr. Crawford has been to Wisconsin twice to see the land on which he is- 
to be employed this year, and he is confident that it is destined to become an 
immense garden. A postal sent to him at Shiocton will *bring copies of the 
paper, in which tillers of the soil will find matter of interest. 
Our business here will be carried on as it has been, with the same secretary,, 
the same foreman, the same packer, and largely the same force of helpers; and 
our customers will receive the same fair and courteous treatment to which they 
have been accustomed in the past. 
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