Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-26
Makes Hay While Brushing

Philip Kaiser, who lives one and
one-half miles northeast of Ingram,
was in the News-Budget office while
in Ladysmith Monday and informed
us that he was busy brushing new
land that he had formerly sowed to
clover, timothy and redtOp.
He cuts the brush and hay at the
same time and says he gets $500 to
$500 worth of hay per days work,
and clears an acre of new land in three
to four days. In this way he is max
ing money to live on from the hay he
old age in tn eraise of value of the
land he is clearing.
He burned off a piece of land last
fall and seeded it early this spring
and got good stand of grass. He is
letting this grass grow this year and
will pasture it next year. He always
burns and seeds we'll ahead of plOw-
ing and says he is going to raise more
hay in the future on land without
blowing, as his crops on plOwed land
do not net him as much money as land
devoted to hay. He feeds his hay to
milk cows and now has six of them.
He also has saved two of his best heifer
calves.
In July he purchased a pure-brcd
yearling Jersey bull from Il Hawkins
breeder and will improve his herd.
One of his cows is a pure-bred Jersey,
and good one, although she is not
registered.
Mr.. Kaiser renewed his subscrip-
ton to the News Budget while here
and said he would not like to 10
without the paper as it was a big help
to him in his farming operations.
Rusk Co. Plan Big Help Says Bone!S
NJ f. Bonek, who lives three and
One-half miles northwest of Lady
smith, says if he could have had IN
formation six years ago like he is
now getting in the News-Budget, he
would have his whole farm brushed
and seeded on the Rusk County Plan
and would be thousands of dollars
ahead of what he is now.
When he started, the information
he got was for the finished acre and
he said that method nearly finished
him, physically and financially, be-
fore he got wise to the fact that the
method was a Jonah, and started in
to brush and seed without blowing. -.
He told the writer Of one piece of
three acres of green land that he 'fin-
fe,I1n vl1n nI
grabbed and got ready for crop. The
first two crops amounted to nothing,
Notwithstanding the fact that he
pl0wed ii both years. This year he
plowed it the third time and got a
good crop of peas and oats. He says
clover on plOwed land frOZe out last
spring while clover on land put in by
srring-tOOthing came through all
right.
He says crops are fine after land
has been seeded down a few years,
and one acre of land he seeded three
years ago was plowed late and plant
ed TO potatoes this spring which he
claims will ont-yield any patch he
knows of, as the potatoes are big
and there are many under each hill.
Mr.. BOnek brushed and logged IF
teen acres of land this spring and says
he burned out big pine stumps that he
didn't want to try to blast out. and
the beauty of the job was that the
ground was level when he had finished.
He got rid Of his logs and trash at
the same time.
Mr. Bonek says the money and time
he formerly spent finishing and plow-
ing one acre will brush and seed close
to ten acres. Figuring 1t this way.
one is about $500 better off on brush
ing and seeding ten acres as compared
to blowing one acre when returns are
considered and it is not nearly rs
hard work.
Mr.. BOnek thinks men who advocate
the finished acre should get out and
try it themselves. then they could
give information that would be worth
something.
He says he will brush and seed the
balance of his farm before plcwing
any more, and will keep most of his
land to hay. Mr.. Bonek milks seven
cows and has three heifers.
G. A. Bonek lives just east Of his
brother, M. E. Bonek. His experience
is similar to the one given above.
He has eight acres free from
stumps and plowed. This spring he
brushed and logged, and stumped four
acres of new land. He plowed one
acre and then spring-toothed the bal
ance, after blowing the cradle knobs.
He went over the field both ways and
made a good seed bed. The plowed