Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-17
RUSK COUNTY FARM ITEMS
News That Will Interest Our City
Readers as Well as the Tillers
of the Soil


of the Soil
The Chippewa Valley Sheep Co. is
completing a run of SaWlOgS which will
yield about 800 thousand feet. on their
big ranch at the Flambeau hills. TWEEN
ty-five miles southwest of Ladysmith.
One months work in the fall clear
,ng land is worth two months in the
spring. at anything else but blasting
ltUmpS. If the rams are sufficient to
ill the ground with water this fall
blasting may be proftably done. If
not. its better to keep on at the other
work and do the blasting in the
spring.
Richard OlesOn has owned his So
acre farm two miles southeast Of
Bruce for II years and is one of the
oldest settlers of that part of the coun-
Y. He has Il big clearing and a good
,et of buildings. He was away from
home Saturday, working on the road
south of his farm, SO we failed to get
chance TO meet MN.
Dry weather this fall has shortened
the crop of late potatoes in the famous
potato country east Of Bruce. Tom
Graham is the potato king of that re-
gi0n and is one of the biggest potato
raisers in this part Of the state His
spudS are always of the highest class.
Ed Speace and Louis LeitZ, Iowa
boys. who own farms two or three
miles southeast of Bruce, were both
away from home and had taken their
wives with them. when the farm edi-
tor called Saturday forenoon. Louis
took Il hike north and Ed was working
on the road south of his farm. The
writer looked over their farms and
found the boys we'll located and their
crops showed up as good as their
noighbors. The boys have often in
vitod the writer out to their farms and
we are going again some day. when we
may have better luck in catching them
at home.
w. *. Thompson. who owns the So
acre farm south of the old Beebe farm
east of Bruce. has a fine house and
barn on the place which are now worth
around $4,000. the price Mr. ThOmp-
%On paid for. the eighty last year The
house is 24x2S. and the barn is 32X56.
and they were built for appearance and
comfort. Mr.. Thompson has built a
hen house. 10x20. and hog house. 12X
20, and put up some fence. There are
81 acres Of plowed land the crops We're
good The son. Clifford is big enough
70 be quite a help to his father Mr..
Thompson carries mail on Route 2 out
Of Bruce. which takes up his fOren0OnS
and he does his farming in the after
Moons Clifford was trying his hand
at carpenter work Saturday when the
farm editor called and was transform
ing j big square box into dog house
for the fine collie dog. which knows
him as master.
A. Hanson lives 215 miles southeast
of Bruce on the 120-acre farm he
wears and last year he bought the adj
Joining forty. His house is large and
his barn is 20X40. with a lean-tO. 1Sx
40 About forty acres are plowed and
some more is brushed. He milks six
cows and has good crops this year
7. w. Brown, of Ohio. Illinois. father
of F. e. Brown, who lives six miles east
of LadySmith. arrived Saturday morn
ing for a weeks visit with his son.
Mr.. Brown expressed himself as we'll
pleased with his sons prospects here
and says be believes this country tol
be O. X.
Auction time will soon be at hand
The sale that is well advertised is the
successful sale, and there is no better
way to advertise a sale than a good
display adv. in this paper 1t reaches
hundreds where the bill on the fence
reaches one.
\ spring well was made on the A.
s. Boustead farm, west of this city
Wednesday, near the right of way.
The well was dug six feet deep when
a foot of water came into it in a few
minutes. They drove a sand point
down and now have perfect we'll
These standpoint wells are worth going
after and some of them have given
years of good service in this county.