THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



  The lands arc not all located.  But over
thirty thousand acres have been selected in
the Eau Claire land district-the larger por-
tion in Chippewa county.  In the St. Croix
land district about sixty thousand acres were
chosen, that for timber, soil, water, and all the
elements that are requisite to make good farms
were found more valuable than we expect
ed; but the most desirable locations yet made
are on the branches of the Chippewa river, in
Chippewa county, not far from the flourishing
town of Eau Claire. These entries are most-
ly covered with beautiful groves of red and
white oak, ash, elm, sugar maple and white
pine. Specimens of the latter and of white
oak can be seen on these lands that are rarely
excelled in any country.
  Oak of this description, suitable for the
manufacture of staves, heading, &c., is already
in demand, and must, as the country rapidly
improves, command remunerativc prices. The
uniform testimony of the pioneer settlers is
that wheat and all the crops usually grown in
this parallel, flourish here; and that the na-
tive grasses, which are very nutritious on this
description of timbered land, spring up and
are fit for pasturage at least a fortnight earli-
er in the spring than upon the adjacent prai-
ries; and, from actual examination of the
premises, I have no doubt that they tell the
truth. Judging the balance of the lands by
those already selected, the ' Wisconsin Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College" needs only
to be inaugurated by the adoption of a liberal
and enlightened policy, and placed under the
care of suitable officers, to prove a success and
permanently silence the clamor of its enemies.
  There is little of interest in this part of our
State. Lumbering-the great interest of mid-
dle and northern Wisconsin-is jubilant over
the present high water and high prices. The
fearful tragedy at Buena Vista, in this coun-
ty, is already being forgotten by all except
the large and influential circle of those more
immediately connected with the deceased.
  We often bear it remarked that the like has
never happened in this latitude before; that
such tornadoes belong to tropical countries,



&c. But are not such expressions the offspring
of a want of information?  Have not these
sublime manifestations of invisible power left
a handwriting, too legible to be misunderstood,
in the native forests that cover so much of our
country? Who has visited these woodlands
beyond the confiaes of civilization and not
observed long lanes cut through the very heart
of the wilderness, and every tree both small
and great either broken off or torn up by the
roots by similar wind-storms?  ' What has
been, may be."
            Yours Truly,
                            Wu. N. REZe.

        The Noble Example of Kawas.
  The State of Kansas has verified the saying,
"For the first shall be last and the last first."
The last to come into the Union, she is the
first to put into operation an Agricultural
College begotten of the Act of Congress mak-
ing donations to the several States for the
endowment of institutions of that class.
  Behold the way in which she has accom-
plished this great work in so short a time.
  At Blue Mount there was a literary college
already in operation and under the manage-
ment of what was legally entitled the Blue
Mount College Association. This Association
owned, in addition to a fine college edifice,
with library and apparatus, one hundred acres
of land-the value of the whole being not less
than twenty to thirty thousand dollars. The
institution already existing was in a prosper-
ous condition; but the Association had wis-
dom enough to see that an endowment of
90,000 acres of government land added to
what the College already possessed would in-
sure the establishment and maintenance of an
industrial college that would probably be of
greater value to the State than two half en-
dowed institutions could possibly be; and so
they magnanimously offered their favorite
college, with all the land thereunto belonging,
to the Regents of the State Agricultural Col-
lege, with the simple condition that the said
Agricultural College should be located at that
place. The offer was accepted, and the work



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