The Greeley tribune., 1907-05-23

alfalfa. MIR. Bradley 10 the owner
Of one of the finest horses anyvhere
In the country, q four-year.old blac 4
stallion, Perch. weighing l,s5O
pounds. He Is a beauty. Mr.. Brad.
ley Will begin at once the erection OF
barn at Mead, to be followed later
by a house. The barn will be 32x6O,
J.F. Bradley, brother of the
former, will also build at Mead on
two lots southeast Of the church.
The latter named Bradley is from
the Liberty Hall country.
B. l.. Swift has home and
ninety We acres of productive land a
short distance from Mead. A good
orchard has been started and MI
Swift has fine tract Of land for
making money. He has this year a
small tract of beets, alfalfa and
grain.
F. G. Ballinger has we'll i'm
proved ranch of eighty acres north
east of Mead with good buildings
which he has owned for four years.
In connection with his own place
MIR. Ballinger rents small tract
from the Gilkey ranch and forty
from Chas. Maloy. Mr.. Ballinger is
having his first siege of sickness for
fourteen or fifteen years, very pain
S,,i ,ttool, ~ torcil{f{s fnlynsnN by
quinsy.
]. A. Mckay owns the quarter
section which is managed BY Law
renee Mckay. The bulk Of this
place is in wheat. Three or four
acres of potatoes are under cultiva-
tion. The manager of the ranch
went to the mountains with cattle.
They have half-section ranch there
and the McKays feed cattle quite
extensively. One of the best barns
on the route is on this place.
W. F. Kistler Is .one Of the heavy
land owners near Mead. He has
something over 400 acres, Warren
Steward being the tenant Of the
place over northwest OF the home
place. The Kistlers have been in
the country for over twenty years
and have a fine home. with q la:ge
country residence and spacious lawn
with shade trees and orchard, good
farm buildings and all the accessor-
les that make a comfortable, pros.
porous farm home. This ranch feeds
cattle in the winter and handles
them on the range in the summer.
The farm crops are beeta, wheat,
barley. oats and alfalfa. The tenant
place ON the farm has been improved
by q new barn and soma changes
made in the house. Mrs. Kistler
already has between 600 and 100 chic
kens, with no dependence upon incu-
bators. Mrs. Kistler rather expects
her brother, Marion CIemons, and
family out to the ranch soon for a
stay, ~ the family have lAtsly cpne
from northwestern Missouri to Clio
rade Springs. Arthur Kistler snd
Chester Mulvaney of the Mead neigh
borhood spent last week In Colorado
Springs and Denver and Roy and
Archie Clemons, cousins of The
former, came home with them for :
visit at the Kistler ranch and possi-
bly, for the summer.
The Maloy brothers, Dan and
John, have pretty cottage on their
ranch and an orchard set out that
gives promise Of adding much value
to the place little later.
w. ]. Hewlett Is the manager of
the Ed Ballinger place of 100 acres.
Wheat, barley, potatoes and alfalfa
are this seasoL's crops A valuable
piece of stock on the place is the
Percheron horse Hero that Il
owned here.
]. B. Stradley is the tenant of the |
place owned by o. ]. Smith OF Bert.
houd. 1t has twenty acres of beets
and tha balance OF the eighty is in /
hay. Mr.. Stradley is six miles from
each OF the three towns, Mead.
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