Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-03-31
ENDORSES STATE
RECLAMATION ACT
Farmer Recognizes Importance
of New Law and Rusk CO.
Clearing Plan

After giving the articles in the farm
department thorough consideration and
reading a copy of the contents Of the
Wisconsin Reclamation law, l wish TO
comment upon the interest taken by
the farm editor in giving this impor-
tant matter so much publicity.
Many of the readers have undoubted-
~ read the write-ups on this question.
but were somewhat slow in knowing
the real meaning Of this law and its
great benefits 10 the new settler of nor
rhern Wisconsin.
There are many new settlers in this
and our neighboring counties who came
to this country n short time ago who
arc not acquainted with the system
OF making Il farm of the wilderness
or cut-oyer lands. whichever it may be.
and the endorsement of the Rusk coun.
~ plan Of clearing by the editor of
he farm department in the News-Hud-
gel is helping many farmers TO get
their new farms into a stage OF pro-
ductiycness at small expense.
Many OF the newcomers who move
into this county make a payment on
their land, divide with the railroads
for hauling their belongings to their
prospective home and after arriving
spend most Of their money for good
houses and fair barns and find that
by the time the buildings are complet-
cd their money supply gets pretty low
to carry on extensive clearing opera
tions.
l6egla to Need Money
Then is the time when money OBJ
| tanned through the reclamation law
would do lot of good to keep this man
on his place so he could get his land
brushed to produce hay and some other
cash crops to tide him over until his
financial circumstances get better.
One of the faults with new settler
is that he gets more stock than he can
feed and the consequences are that he
must spend a great deal of money for
feed for these animals, thinking that
if he has a lot Of cows they will soon
pay for themselves This is not the
case, for a farmer has to feed very
sparingly when he must pay from ~
TO % dollars per ton for baled hay.
Of course we all have our own ideas
as how TO clear up a new farm but
some ideas are better than others.
The writer happens to be common
hayseed and grub-worm who has spent
several years in clearing up new
| farm and has had some very good re-
turns from his land which was
cleared according to the farm editors
advice
] had large strip OF brush land
which had raised nothing else but
brush and taxes for a good many
years, so one day during November
| IN 1917 / decided to- declare war on
the brush and with the assistance OF
two other members of the family we
soon had the sun shining over large
brush and log heaps which were
burned in the spring.
Brush Hay Paid Well
\ fire was sent over the fifteen acres
Of land brushed through the winter
II narrowed this with a spring-tooth
harrow and seeded it with Il mixture
OF clover and timothy seed. / got Il
pretty good stand Of clover which made
a rapid growth during the summer
and when the month Of August came
along | cut the young brush with the
'Iig clover, cured it and stacked it all.
/ did not stack this brush and clover
mixture for any special purpose but
only as an experiment, and when the
nice. warm days came the following
spring | let the cattle help themselves
to it by throwing some OF the hay OFT
Of tho top of the stack every morning.
As the stack was fairly well topped
most all of the brush hay, rs we called
mp and the cows relished it better than
the timothy hay which | was feeding
at the time.
The summer after seeding when /
moved the field I took off q loads Of
fine clover and timothy hay for the
first crop and half of the field yielded
five loads OF second crop hay, while
the other half Of the field was left for
fall pasture for the stock. So / fig
ure that / have gotten very good re
turns for the investment I have made.
made.
OF course, not all farmers have
enough help and some of them must
70 elsewhere to work in order to make |
enough money to live on, but if they |
could only get loan at as low Il rate
of interest as possible and for longer |
term OF years, / think that there
would be more contented settlers in I
Rusk county than there are now in
spite of the fact that the most of them
are fairly well satisfied.
Better to Sell Some Hay
How much better 4 settler would feel
il he had n hundred or two hundred