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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