The Kanabec County Times

BRINGING EUROPE'S FARMERS.
Bishop McGolrick Imports 100 Belgians Into Minnesota.
Duluth.—One hundred Belgians will come to America in the coming spring to take up farms in Becker and Hubbard counties in a big Catholic colony to be established there by Bishop McGolrick of this city.
Most of them have means enough to equip a dairy farm or a truck garden plot. The Belgians are especially adapted to gardening work, while the Hollanders are the great dairymen of Europe.
In the meantime, representatives of the bishop are scouring all the large cities of the United States for prospective settlers. They are searching for men who have enough money to make a first payment on a small farm, buy the necessary tools and erect enough buildings to begin farming.
Bishop McGolrick says the European farmers, who, for the most part, are experienced, will be scattered in settlements among the American colonists in order that their methods of farming may serve as models for the emigrants from the great cities, who have little practical knowledge of land cultivation.
Everything points to a large migration of settlers to the lands of the bishop's company early in the spring, and before the summer is passed the promoters expect to see many clusters of prospering settlers' homes in Hubbard and Becker counties.