Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-01-14
CONTEST LETTER NO. 4
How TO Make Living From the Start
on Rusk County Farm

Get started right if you can that s
half the battle. Buy your farm from
someone who will give you easy terms
to start With if you can't pay cash
| II YOU have Il little cash to carry you
along until you begin TO produce. don't
Io afraid to go into debt for Il small
! farm in Rusk county, for with your
assistance. the farm Will pay for itself
| OF course. you can't sit around and
wait for the Stumps to rot out and vol
| Hnteer clover to come i'll. You've got
to help nature along bit. and to my
way Of thinking. this is the best way
to do it,
| First Of all. you've got to have a
house, but let it he Il simple one Don't
| splllrge \ log house or Il neat. little
frame house with heavy roofing paper
/ Is best to start with. If you start III
| spring. don't worry about barn until
| fall
Get Il cow--a good milllcr-a couple
| of pigs. flock of chickens. the neces-
| sary clearing tools. and some clover
and timothy seed. If YOU can afford
| it. and have the pasture. get two cows
| Then Start where the clearing is cas-
lest Later come back and clear
around the house and along the road
Brush and burn all you can and seed
it down to clover and timothy. after
scratching il up Il bit with harrow
| Hire a team to do this narrowing. and
| also the blowing for Il small garden
plat Put III plenty of potatoes and
other garden truck for your own use.
| Remember that in new ground potatoes
do letter if not planted too deep the
| first few years
| tDon't spend time and money getting
out Stumps the first year or so. Brush
brush. brush. and seed. seed, seed
| Forget the StumpS. except perhaps a
| few in your garden spot or close to the
house. You can cut hay from a stump
field that is just as valuable as that
which comes from a cleared field. and
a stump field is just as good pasture
| to begin with. Let nature help you by
| rOtting out the StumpS and burning the
cut brush. Pile your brush on the
WindWard side of your StumpS and let
| the lire help get them out too. Push
your cattle in ahead of you-t they will
help YOU clear more than You think.
Have a definite plan and follow it
as closely as You can. Get into the
! spirit of cooperation with your neigh
hors. your town. your county, and
your state.
If you haven't the cash to hire Il
team when YOU need one, exchange
work with someone who has Il team.
II is more profitable than buying horses
III the start.
30 what clearing and seeding YOU
can in the summer. and leave the log
ging or wood cutting. or outside
work for winter. Sometimes you can
do lots Of brushing even in the winter
time.
believe that the man who indus
triollsly follows this rotation will win
out by big pasturing. cut
ting. burning. scratching and seeding.
| The colonizing company offers to give
Il man a deed to one of their farms in
| Guiding a house. when he has plowed
II acres. and take back mortgage for
the entire purchase price. That means
| that the farm has doubled in value by
| having II acres cleared and ploWed.
| If you can double the value Of your
| land besides getting the profit from
your produce and stock increase, dur
| ing the time it takes to clear and pillow
II acres on an eighty, YOU can make a
| living right from the start
But in your haste to make a living.
! don't forget your natural pride in
beautiful surroundings. Keep your
yard clean and neat The wife and
! children. and you yourself will be
happier and more contented III pleas
ant surroundings.