Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-05-07
RUSK COUNTY FARM ITEMS

News That Will Interest Our CITY
Readers as Well as the TiIlers
of the Soil
VIM. II. KOppari. who owned a farm
; miles west of Sheldon, traded his land
to John E. MOrphew. of Rice Lake fOl
a home in Rice Lake These gentle
men changed locations Tuesday. The
farm was put in at consideration Of
$1,000.
T. f. PiersOn, who moved onto piece
of land one mile east Of Shaw Dam last
June has cleared and plOwed five acres
/ and now has - acres more cleared,
stumped and ready to pillow. He
| burned the pile of stumps and logs
Monday and started to pillow Tuesday.
Ten acres will be put into grain and
! the same acreage will be put into po-
| tatOes.
f. G.. Robinson. who lives II miles
east of Ladysmth. was in this city
Monday He has so acres Of land and
has lived there II months. He worked
in the woods this winter and with his
team earned 5000 He has Is acres
brushed and two acres broke. MIR.
Robinson burned his land over and
sOwed the grass seed last year and
brushed later. thus giving the grass a
years start This is good system to
follow as grass seed sown early in the
season does not need covering to give
almost a perfect stand. which makes
some pasture the first year and if
brushed off does fine afterward.
Newspapers from Illinois and Iowa
state that the weather there last week
was wet and cold with some snow
The spring here has been cold but we
have had no excessive rains.
George Nell who lives ~ miles
north of the cemetery, has finished his
house, built an addition to his barn,
erected new hcn-hOuSe, and repaired
the fence Mr. Nell now has his hold
ings in shape for use. and has started
to brush and clear his land. He will
clear his entire so as rapidly as posi-
BILE Good reports are coming i'll regu-
larIy of how the new settlers are taking
hold.
McGlcnnen & Son. farmers III the
Crane neighbOrhOOd, purchased the
highest priced pure bred Guernsey COW
sold last week Thursday at the c. r.
Collins sale Some of these pure-bred
COWS were not sold and will be sold at
Eau Claire.
Phillip J. Chock, who is the owner
of a 240-acre farm. Il miles northwest
of this city. on the Chippewa river,
formerly the Isaac zimmerman farm,
was in the city Saturday on business.
Mr.. ChOck exchanged a general store
and blacksmith shop at Little Falls,
Mimi. for this place and arrived here
with his family the fore part Of March.
Mr. ChOcl1 has an adv. in this week 5
NewS-Budget for a horse which either
Strayed or was stolen from his place
and will appreciate any information
leading to its recovery. incidentally,
Mr.. ChOck is one of the NeWs-Budget's
| latest subscribers.
Mrs. Rebecca West. of Knox, Ind.
arrived here last Friday and has moved
onto the Gottier farm that she owns
near Tony.
| Mike Biehel. who lives four miles
| southeast of Ladysmith. cut a first crop
| Of timothy for hay last year, and the
| second crop headed out and lie cut it
| md received fair yield. If we told
hat story in Indiana they would say
| There aint no such an animal How
ever it is true. We have the best grass
| country of any state in the union, and
| grass makes milk When RuSk county
uses nothing but pure bred bulls, We
will have made q good start toward ON
desired goal of being the best dairy
county in the best dairy state in the
union.
| J. NJ. Nelson, who lives two mile!
northeast of Glen Flora, was in Lady
smith Thursday of last week on his way
to st. Paul. where he went to buy some
cattle. Mr. Nelson thinks cattle AZ,
good thing to put on pasture. Las
year his cattle gained over 1000 pound
and still his loss was 5000. Condition
were against summer feeding las
year as cattle were high in the sprin;
and cheap in the fall Cattle are YER,
cheap now and this will probably he
good year to pasture feed them. AS
general thing cattle bought in the fal
make the most money if one is fixed t
handle them properly. Later = MI
Nelson returned from South st. Pau
Monday. He purchased 10 feede
cows at $7.25 per ewt.. W.T.. 90 lbs. an
IA springer heifers at $7.75. W.T.. 81!
Freight will. have to be added. Th
| cost at thp wards fiourpS I'D 10 aho1l