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where the millions of acres of lands unsurpassed for beauty and good¬ 
ness, under proper cultivation, will yield an amount of products as yet 
undreamed of. 
As a wool growing State it hardly has an equal; its more elevated and 
variable surface especially adapts it to that purpose. How long can lands 
worth ten times the value of ours per acre, and inferior in quality at that, 
with longer and more rigorous winters, compete with us in growing wool ? 
Ho longer of course than until our citizens can get fairly embarked in 
the business. Wool can be grown in Wisconsin for one-half the cost of 
growing it in the State of Hew York, and one-third of its cost in Ver¬ 
mont. What greater protection than this do the farmers of Wisconsin 
need; what better encouragement for killing off their worthless dogs and 
stocking their farms with sheep ? The labor of wool growing is com¬ 
paratively light and easy, the profits certain and large, the demand for 
wool unlimited, and the transportation easy and cheap. 
Raising horses, mules and cattle must pay largely to all who embark 
properly, and who persevere in the business. Situated as we are, mid¬ 
way between the great eastern and rapidly growing western markets, it 
cannot be otherwise. Hitherto, Wisconsin has bought everything, even 
to its soap, candles and whiskey; its fruit, and this no small item either, 
and its manufactures of every kind. Millions of dollars have been paid 
nut of the State annually for the lsst seven years for articles that might 
have been produced at home. This heavy and continual drain upon the 
scanty productive income of the State, has kept the masses of the peo¬ 
ple down to the very verge of poverty. 
A new order of things is now dawning upon us; railroads are reach¬ 
ing their leviathan arms in all directions, doubling production and value 
whereever they go; and diminishing expense and inconvenience, in the 
same proportion. 
Let us hope while all these favorable causes are awakening the whole 
population to double exertions, that an equal progress, in good taste and 
economy, will manifest itself on all hands and in all shapes, until our 
young but promising State attains to a fair youthful maturity. 
Let our motto be “ onward,” and our aim be to do what we do well; 
that our works may praise us, and “posteriy be constrained to rise up 
and call us blessed.” 
