Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1912 — Page 4

Strau s a ßr£S. o Com pan y VERS AND SELLERS OF QUALITY -*.( ■ ' RELIABLE FARtfITERCHANfS |

Many farmers,, owners of high priced farms in the older States are considering the question of selling out this Spring, and investing in a larger acreage in other sections. It is a good business move, * ■ Straus Brothers Company, Farm Merchants, invite you to look at some of their improved farms in Northwestern Ohio, where prices range from $l4O per acre up—at Indiana land ranging from SIOO per acre up—and at Ontario and Michigan lands at S6O per acre up. We Can Locate You to Good Advantage in sections where you will find good neighbors—good churches, schools, society, good roads, civilization at its best. You will find that many of your farmer neighbors have made new homes—with more acres under cultivation on the Straus farms. Down in the Maumee Valley section, in Putnam, Wood and Henry Counties, Ohio, are many excellent corn farms, with splendid records for crop yields—also in Indiana and across the border in Canada are some fine farms ready for the progressive men whose land in the older section is ripe for selling. Let us add what we know about soil, to what you know, and get together in selecting a farm that will suit you as to size, location, improvements, etc., and that will satisfy us both as to quality of soil. As a business proposition we believe that a man seeking a farm is acting wisely in coming direct to us and letting us know just what he wants. We have done the advance

, ?? ik^i i| /-?' -.mum**jaKs m No. 1787—189 Acres, Wood County, Ohio. v This is ore of the best farms in Wood County and well located, being 2K miles northeast of Hoytville, a town of about 600 on the B. & ltile vel/black elm loath, well tiled at about every Brods and all in high state of cultivation. Improvements are a good 6 roofn+mme bouse. good barn 36x56: buggy shed, corn crib, poultry house, wind pump and small orchard, buildings are all in fine condition and well painted. Price, $165 an acre ■fe. H j *. : m •: C* : - No. 179)5—18234 Acres, Henry County, Ohio. This farm Ties in the midst of a German-Lutheran neighborhood, about 2H miles southwest of West Hope and 5 miles south of Grelton: 1 mile from school and 3 miles from two German-Lutheran churches. Surface is level, soil is black loam of fine quality, well tiled and all in cultivation. Improvements, are a good 7-room frame house, another small house. 6am 30x40 two stables, two cribs andwagon shed, poultry house, wind pump and good orchard- Price, $67.50 an acre. No. 1982-9834 Acres, Kent County, Ontario. 1 Nicely located 3 miles northeast of Tilbury, a fine town of about 1200, with Churches of many denominations and splendid schools H nule from country school. This farm lies level and soil is rich, dark loam, about 60 acres of which is now in cultivation and the balance in stumpage blue-grass pasture. The improvements are a new 6-room house, another older house, hew barn 36x40 with crib and wagon shed attached, poultry house, bog"house, wire and rail fences and small orchard. Just such a farm in the Central states would sell for 1200 or more an acre. Price, $lO5 an acre. '

SEND FOR OUR ADVANCE SPRING CATALOGUE /+f Only a limited number of our farms are shown here-We have a long and offered by us at the lowest prices possible because of our policy of buying for cash j$Z interesting list, which is contained in our ADVANCE SPRING CATALOG which we are an£ * seeing f° r a close margin of profit upon the most favorable terms. ' anxious to get into your hands with as little delay as possible. The fact that our business grew to nearly 10 millions Of + Ayf J w ... „ , , , , cO . „‘ r dollars in the years between 1902 and 1910 is convincing evidence that Jos or/ In this book, freely illustrated, are listed hundreds of Straus farms,, q ty the Straus way of farm merchandising is the right way. ‘ / farms, each one described in detail, with information as to crops, soil, buildings, improvements, ... ' pnd not a few of them showing half-tone pictures of the house and buildings. To 83VC bother fill in the coupon 3lta noil to us cF* / This is a most valuable advance book on farms that we publish each year. It gives a would- The Advance Spring Catalog will go foHvard in due season. / / be purchaser a very wide selection of farms at an equally wide range of prices, each farm being Address all communications to the mafo offices—as follows: / / LIGONIER, INDIANA

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■ ' Sfiß™ vi • v, <4s' ■’ »-• ' ~~ I No. 1762—1613< Acres, Putnam County, Ohio. This farm adjoins Miller City, a town of about 250 on the Nickel Plate Ry.: is on stone pike with school house across the road churches of several denominations in the town. about 25 acres’in timber. Improvements are a new 6-room frame house, new barn 38x60. sheep barn 22x80, corn crib 24x40, poultry house, milk house, wind pump and good orchard; fences are mostly woven wire. Price, $l6O an acre. Canada Says: “Come Over and See My Offerings’ 1 We are accustomed to hear Canada spoken of as “My Lady of the Snows”-—when as a matter of fact that part of Canada in which we are operating, Essex and Kent Counties, is very little different in soil and climate conditions from that of its neighbor, Michigan, just across the river, in the fertile lands surrounding Detroit. Indeed it has advantages over its Michigan neighbor, for the lands in Essex and Kent Counties are tempered by the winds of Lake Erie, and jn consequence a level temperature prevents sudden extremes of heat and cold which insures uniform crops. ** Canada is prospering. The highest percentage of growth ever reached in the United States, in any ten years in its history, was 24 per cent, whereas Canada’s increase in the decade between 1901 and 1911 was 32 per cent! Hon. Robert Rogers* head of the Immigration Department of Canada, says: “It will be my privilege to offer our American cousins a welcome hearty and sincere and to so contribute to their welfare that under the protecting folds of the Union Jack they will enjoy as great a degree of liberty and happiness as under the Stars and Stripes.” Straus Bro&iers Company are very much interested in their Ontario land offerings and shall be pleased to give intending purchasers every opportunity to investigate their lands, under the direction and guidance of our representatives who are thoroughly familiar with soil and conditions in that highly favored section.

work of selection and examination, which is always the hard part of the proposition confronting the man who would buy. He is not called upon to spend months in wandering about over one section after another only to find something about each that is against it. With our immense organization we are in position to get at the exact facts about any farm we examine before we buy it. And when we buy it, you can buy it from us with perfect confidence for our guarantee goes with it. We are in effect a Farm Clearing House, where a man can spend his money with perfect confidence and save valuable time in the bargain. It is the proper way to buy a farm, and the more you consider it the more the plan will appeal to you as being conservative, business-like and safe. Farm Landis Going Up in the New Locations We can do better by you this Spring than we can next. For example: Sugar beets in Paulding County, Ohio, are yielding 17 and 18 tons an acre, and selling on an average of $5 per ton. Com is showing very heavy yields—big crops make land prices grow. Let us locate you on the right farm, and save you time and moneytake advantage of the Straus guarantee —which absolutely guarantees. The first step is to fill in the coupon— and get the Spring Catalog—s his a very interesting book for a man who wants to make money •

sl * > MM No. 1794—9834 Acres, Henry County, Ohio. Nicely located X A mile from the village of West Hope and s>s miles north of McClure, a town of about 800 on the T., St. L- & W-„ on stone pike % mile from school and church--This farniislevef, soil is black'elm loam hfexCiHlefit qualityT ail in cultivation and all tiled ~ at six to seven rods apart: one of the most productive farms we own. Improvements are a good 6-room frame house, good bam 32x48, granary, buggy shed, poultry house, wind, pump and small orchard. Good high school in West Hope % mile away. Price, $l7O an acre: ■ nuMMßysiMMfcnuwfi*:. .‘iww- 1 - gpjHMP§&- ' - /MaUllßg No. Aeros, Lonawoo County, Michigan Three miles east of Jasper, a town on the L. S. & M. S. Ry., and about 8 miles south of Adrian, the county seat, a city of about 14,000. This is a splendid level farm of black loam soil of highest quality, all tiled and all in high state of cultivation. The improvements are a good 6-room frame house, surrounded by fine, big shade trees, good bam 40x60, stock bam, double crib and other outbuildings, wind pump and good large orchard. The soil of this part of Lenawee County is exactly the same as across the state line in the famous Maumee Valley of Northwestern Ohio. Price, $l6O an acre. r~ ' ''* ' ' ' - - ~ T ‘ 'i I V . , - * «*■>" > i jM I Mb /ipNin No. 1958—105 Acres, Essex County, Ontario. This farm is SH miles north of Wheatly, a town of about 800 on thfe Pere Marquette Ry., and 1 mile from school and church. Surface is level, soil the usual black loam of this section and is all in cultivation. The improvements are a very fair 8-room irai.ie house, good bam about 40x60. com crib and wagon shed, poultry house wire -n. rail fences, wind pump and good orchard. It would be hard to find a better corn oaf «*-d wheat producer.in any of the Central States at twice its price, which is only $lO5 an acre. > . A