Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-08-20
RUSK COUNTY FARM ITEMS
News That Will Interest Our CITY
Readers as Well as the Tillers
of the Soil

NEWS 1Hdt Will Interest OUr lily
Readers as Well as the Tillers
of the Soil
Have you seen anything that beats
cows and clover for Rusk county
farms?
busy last week hauling the sawmill to
Dairy Center where a big pile of logs
will be sawed to make homes for the
new settlers.
NJ III. Beckett has been here two
weeks and has his house enclosed. Nh
Beckett lives on the Big Falls road
northeast of Ladysmith, and is an en-
thusiastic booster for Rusk county.
4. NJ. Dahlberg has small acreage
of peas on his nursery land in the west
edge of this city. The storm of last
week laid these peas fiat so they had to
be cut with a scythe \ deal Of this
kind takes the joy and profit all out Of
the pea crop.
The big tractor which is being used
to grade the river road leading to Big
Falls, was driven into the ditch at the
east corner of the FOuntain-Campbell
mill yard where it laid on its left side
Tuesday evening. IT had to be lacked
up before it could be gotten out Of the
ditch.
Charles Koepke has his house COM
Sthalli0ls. This is one of the best
looking houses on the road, and is
plenty good enough for the future
mayor Of Dairy Center to live in. Mr..
Koepke and family spent all of last
week on their farm.
j. w. Robinson, who bought the Lem
Jones farm in the town of Washington,
was in the city Saturday. TO News
Budget representative he said that he
had shot five acres of stumpS this sum-
mer. He said that all his crops are
good and believes that he has the best
corn i'm RuSk cOunty-bar none.
JOS. HaaSl has a fine colt advertised
i'm this issue of the NewS-Budget. He
would sell the colt reasonable or would
trade it for good milk COW. He is
milking seven COWS and gets S66.21
cash for two weeks Four more heiferS
NV a1
ing one more, he expects to milk an
even dozen from now on.
Jim BOIitho, of Dairy Center, was
skidding logs one day last week when
he got caught between a log and a
stump and got his legs pinched. Mr..
Bolith0 thought it was not serious, but
couple of days later as his legs were
swelling he came to this city for treat
ment, and went to st. Mary's. hospital,
where he is recovering nicely.
Ira MOrey who lives a mile east OF
the C. f. Goode farm northeast of this
.ity, has 1871 acres of land in his farm,
20 acres of which are cleared. He has
4 2OX4O foot barn and his house is lax
"A. He has ten cows, six heifers and
three calves. Some are high bred
GuernSeys and some are HOlstelnS.
He has good crops and put up about
10 tons of hay this season.
G. Creighbaum moved onto his 40
acre farm year ago this spring. This
farm is a half mile east of the c. =.
Goode farm About half of this land
s brushed and a few acres are ploWed
md in crops. \ house, 16X3O, and
some sheds are on the place now. These
sheds will be replaced later by new
barn. Mr. Crighbaum is working Oh
the road at the present time.
Louis Wagner owns so acres of land
north of the Pepper schOolhOuse. He
has frame house and a log barn.
Louis has big lot of land brushed and
quite a patch broke. When the farm
editor called Tuesday he was stacking
his oats alone. throwing the bundles
up then climbing up on the stack and
doing the stacking. Louis is a hard
worker and is slowly, but surely,
building up his farm.
Word has reached the National
Union that Secretary Meredith has
ordered decrease of approximately
80 per cent in the discriminatory
charges against cooperative ship
pers This will amount to saw
ing of several hundred thousand dol
lars to the farmers patronizing the
Chicago market, and is an example or
what can be done through organization
endeavOring to protect it's members.