Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-07-18

everyone in the community.
This wet weather is jlIst the thing for
blasting stumps. About half the amount
of dynamite is necessary when the
ground is full of water compared to
when it is dry. When too wet to make,
hay get out and blast stumps.
best farmers in Rusk county. has added
another 40-acre tract. on the east side of
the road to his holdings, making fine
farm of 160 acres. Mr.. Speigelberg is
hustler and already has this new forty
nearly brushed off and in a fair way
berg came here a few years ago, owning
nothing but determination to succeed.
and that he has made good is manifest
ed by the fact that his farm and farm
stock are almost paid for.
Lloyd Nelson. who rents the Big z
Live Stock Ranch owned by NJ. @. EN-
mons. is getting nicely started in stock.
This farm is rented on the half basis.
and the boys own the stock jointly.
They already have fifty head of stock,
including twenty-eight head of pure
bred Duroc Jersey hogs. They are
clearing 100 acres of land this year, 40
acres of which is now nearly com
pleted
Mr. Good. who was an old friend Of
Herb Turner's in Chicago, has bought
the SO-acrc tract south Of Mr.. Turner's
land. from I. C. Jones' the former own
er. Mr.. Good is building an addition to
the house to accommodate his family.
who have already moved to the farm.
The Prindle cheese factory is doing
a bigger business this year than ever
before. There are many new patrons
and many Of the old patrons are en-
larging their dairy herds
Roy Prindle is milking ten good
cows this summer, and gets as high as
$4,000 per month It's too bad he and
Frank Parks don't take few days off
and look up a good working partner to
do their milking. and help them spend
their Swag
Mr. Fetty, of Viola, has been here
looking over his 200 acres of land west
of the Big Live Stock Ranch. Mr.
Fetty is a good judge of land and does
not care to sell his holdings here,
though he said he probably would not
refuse $40 per acre for it. He is now
figuring on having the lumber logged
and sawed and erecting substantial
buildings on his land making two farms
out of it, This is one good way to
make money and improve the country
that most of the Specializing land own
ers of this region have overlooked
Victor Schalliol, who sawed several
thousand ties last winter. has been
having them hauled to Ladysmith by
steam engine. We are thankful that
the job is about complete, as our roads
are not fit to accommodate loads of
this weight. though they have stood up
very well except for a few places
VIM. VOight who lives just north
east of the Prindle cheese factory, is
building a new barn about 36X100 feet
with full basement. The stone was
taken from his farm and the lumber
was sawed from logs gathered while
L.. t<R1
a farm of this kind be built for so low
a cost as right here in RuSk county,
where good building material is going
to waste.
Roy prindle and nj. Z. LeCOut have
land on their farms near the Prindle
cheese factory and have them now in
crops
Frank Parks cleared up six acres of
land this spring and sowed the land to
peas. These peas are looking fine and
will undoubtedly make Mr.. Parks some
money.
Martin Grover. who owns tract of
land north of the cemetery, is cutting
a crop of about twenty tons of good
clover, some of which he seeded broad
cast without blowing or dragging.
Some of this land has considerable
brush ON it, but the hay crop is fine.
j. NJ. Ramsey. livestock man from
the stock yards of South st. Paul, was
here recently and bought 500 acres of
wild land of the Flambeau River IJlm-
Der Co, through their agent, L. c..
Jones. This land lays two miles north
of the Marguerite Daily schoolhouse|
and has meadows Of nearly 200 acres.
Mr.. Ramsey will cut these meadows,
and intends to stock his land with cat
tie next year.
Several new settlers are moving onto
farms they bought OH the Big Falls
road east of the Victor Schalliol farm
They are from Indiana and their farms
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