44                                            Personat Testimony



be satisfied In every way. Our climate
and soil are more adapted for dairy
and stock farming, but still you can
raise all and every kind of grain, vege-
tables, potatoes, etc.
   Red clover is first-class and I doubt
 whether there is any place in the
 Northwest where clover grows in so
 rich abundance, or brings better crops
 than in Central Wisconsin.
   Next spring there will be opened
 here a new cheese factory, and when
 once a start is made there will be more
 in a very few years. In the southern
 part of Taylor county four years ago,
 they could keep hardly one cheese fac-
 tory up, now you find one every two
 or three miles apart, besides many
 butter factories, which work with good
 success.  That all the farmers are
 prosperous you can see by the fine
 farm  buildings they erect on their
 farms, since dairy farming goes ahead.
 With the raising of apples I have
 also had good success, and I hope to
 earn in a very few years a good deal of
 money from my fruit trees. With best
 regards,    Yours truly,
                 JOHN SCHREIBER,
[Translated from German.]

            Chicago, March 9th, 1904.
W. H. Killen,
      Milwaukee, Wis.
  Dear Sir:  In answer to your inquiry
as to my opinion of Ashland county,
Wis., will say, last fall I bought four
hundred (400) acres nine miles south
of Ashland, at $10 an acre. I am going
to clear at least forty acres this sum-
mer and at least as much more each



year until the farm is cleared and in
grass or some other crop. I know the
quality of the soil warrants this. One
thing I am sure of and that is that I
can raise as much clover and timothy
hay on an acre as I could raise on the
same amount of land that would cost
from $75 to $100 per acre.
           Yours respectfully,
                     J. W. EMMETT.



Wisconsin Central Depot at Ashland



             Chicago, March 9th, 1904.
W. H. Killen,
      Milwaukee, Wis.
  Dear Sir: Replyirg to your inquiry
I may say that I bought five hundred
(500) acres of land five miles south of
Ashland, from the Wisconsin Central
two years ago, and one hundred and
twenty (120) acres more one month
ago, joining the first.
  I have cleared only forty acres so
far, but will try to do more in that
line the coming summer. I think the
land in question will raise first-class
crops, and am very well pleased with
the country. The growth of clovers
and grasses is wonderful, the district
being especially adapted to stock rais-
ing.        Yours very truly,
                     W. W. WILSON.



LNote-Mr. W. W. Wilson is a brother of Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.
Both he and
  Mr. J. W. Bennett were at one time well known Iowa farmers and are both
well and favorably
  known in the live-stock commission business as cattle salesmen in the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago.]