You expected to make it your home
for the remainder of your life. Just
when you think you have everything
arranged comfortably a capitalist
comes your way. He enjoys that sec
tion of the "fcountry and has his agents
buy up 10,000 acres around you.
Your old neighbors are inveigled in
to selling out. They must move away.
The capitalist who has purchased your
neighbors' farms wants yours. You
decline to sell and he makes it unpleas
ant for you. Your old neighbors are
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA BEST.
J. D. Palmer of Leroy who has spent
six months traveling in the Southwest,
expresses his opinion that for a gen
eral purpose agricultural country there
is no section that excells and few that
equals Southern Minnesota and North
ern Iowa. He has seen no section of
country where the great drawback of
waste land is almost completely elim
inated.
We have hundreds of farms in this
favored region where all ttfe land is
good we have no barren blulfs, 'no
vast stretches of sour marsh, no ex
panses of sand. When a man buys 160
acres here he gets the stuff all in good
rich soil, whereas in most other places
he pays a larger price and gets 20
to
40
acres that are unproductive and
nea'rly worthless.
Mr. Palmer is also impressed with
the fact that the possibilities of our
lands are not fully appreciated by the
owners and believes the time is com
ing when the income from our farms
will be very much greater than it is
at present. In the future there will
be more 80 acre farms under a higher
state of cultivation, in which dairying
will be a prominent feature, with spe
cial corps and ensilage to support it.
