SEVENTY-EIGHT TEARS OF PROGRESS

The advancement in land values has been remarkable, and fully equals the rise in other districts in the state. There is a good reason back of this, and it is not to be regarded as the result of speculative movements, but the natural increase due to intelligent treatment of the soil and modern improvement of the premises. The modern agriculturist of progressive ideas con­ ducts his farm as a manufacturer his factory. From his fields he produces certain crops, knowing how to regulate them by scientific attention to the nourishment of the land, and rotation of seeds.

He recognizes the fact that it is a poor policy to provide insufficient shelter for his stock and is proud that his residence compares favorably with city ones. It is easier to install electric power, than to hire additional labor for performing the tasks now done by the motor. All of these ideas have gained general recognition through the work of government experiments, and that of the Farmers' Institutes, and they have been readily adopted by the agriculturists, and in many cases improved upon, each man fitting them to his individual needs.

In short, Coe township is a community of happy, healthy, prosperous farmers and their families. These men own their homes, and are deeply interested in improving them from year to year, and in increasing the earning capacity of their acres. They are law-abiding citizens, interested in the religious and educational advancement of their locality, and can be depend­ ed upon to give their hearty support to those measures they feel will work out a betterment of conditions for the majority. They are the worthy descendants of the brave pioneers, who came here from more eastern states, as well as those fifteen or twenty German families who came across the ocean from the fatherland to find a new home in Coe township, and all reflect credit upon the teachings of parents long ago laid to a last rest after lives of unceasing toil and kindly, charitable living.

 

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