Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-11-04


and Much Cleared Land to be
Found in Rusk County is on
the ony-Conrath Road Just
South of Highway No. IA
The following items give fairly
accurate report on some of the repre-
sentative farmers of that neighbor-
hood:
James DeVOraE
James DevOrak has lived ON his farm
two miles southwest of Tony for 10
years and is one of the Oldest .nttlers
Of that part of the county.
He has so acres on the west side of
the road and a long 40 acres on the
east The forty is nearly all clear and
the eighty is clear except for twenty
acres of low land that is i'll pasture.
Mr.. Dev0rak plans to brush this land
off within the next years time.
\ fine, new barn was built on this
place two years ago and il is 40XS0
feet with S-foot basement and 14-fOot
sides 1t is equipped with cement
floors drinking cups and litter car
rierS He is getting ready and plans
on building new addition to his
house next year.
Fourteen COWS are MIXED and five
| head of heifers are coming ON, so that
| 80 COWS will be producing cream
| checks next year. The cream from
This farm is sold sweet" and a small
tank in the pump room receives all
of the wafer used by the live stock
when fresh pumped. This keeps the
cream cold and sweet for several days
| in the hottest weather. Mr. DevOrak
| has three work horses and two three
| vcar-od home raised chunks are
now ready to take the place of two
of the older horses or he says he would
sell the colts
Three horses We're hitched to the
manure spreader and the last of the
yard manure was cleared up Monday
Iafternoon and placed on the field
where it would do the most good
Roman SObekey
Roman Sobekey. who owns 40 acres
of land two miles southwest of Tony.
built nice. little house on it last sum-
mer He has about 80 acres cleared
and ten acres in brush pasture.
Mr.. Sobekey has not been well for
the past year and the work of the
farm has been done by his sons. One
of the boys was blasting stumps Mon
day afternoon
4 half acre of ginseng is started on
this farm which should add greatly
to the income of the farm in a few
years
John DevOrak
John Devorak has lived on his 40
acre farm on the corner of highway
No. II and the TOny-Conrath road for
the past 10 years. He has Il fair set
Of buildings and about thirty acres
are cleared. y team. six cows and
two heifers are kept on this farm. Mr..
DevOrak has done considerable out
side work during his time on the
farm.
John Egger
John Egger owns an S0-acre farm
two miles south of Tony that he moved
onto last spring. There are 60 acres
cleared and about 81 acres are free
from Stumps.
\ new barn is full of hay. This hay
haI IS hIIi lot h.lp
and can be sheathed on the sides at
any time desired. Mr.. Egger plans on
building an addition to it that will
be the same SIZE about 36X4O, making
! the whole barn so feet long There
is a good. little house on the place. y
team and nine cows are kept
John Van Der Loop
John Van Der Loop owns an S0-acre
farm three miles southwest of Tony.
This farm is about half cleared and
| the balance is in pasture. Thirteen
acres were planted to potatoes this
year and yielded over 100 bushels per
acre.
The house has been remodeled this
SuUlU1tI anu CdIUOi IISIlS were III
stalled. There is 40xS0 barn ON the
place and the silo that was built a
year or SO ago was freshly painted
this week Mr.. Van Der Loop has a
good bunch of high-grade Guernsey
cows.
Phillip Miller Il
Phillip Miller has lived on the ].
p Diederich farm, which he bought,
for the past year. Mr.. Diederich was
one of the old settlers of that part Of
the county and built a big house and
40xS0 foot barn. There are 40 acres
cleared free from stumps and the bal
ance> of the land is opened up for pas
ture Forty acres Of this farm is east
of the road and so acres is west of
the road.
Mr.. Miller keeps Is cows, having