Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-04
Farmers Northeast of Lady
smith Are Busy Harvesting
Hay and Crops and Inn
proving Their
Farms

farmers Oh Cuo TOdu ledulUS Ir0Iu Jue
James Frost farm east to the John
thinner farm and south around the
loop to the Peter Nelson corner, two
miles northwest of Tony.
SilOs, waterworkS, good houses and
barns, fine dairy herds, and good
horses are very much in evidence and
those not having them now are
laying their plans for them in the fu-
ture This section contains fine, rich,
gently rolling land and has many big
fields of hay and crops.
Peter G.. LeOnhard
Peter G.. Leonhard is one of the old
er settlers who lives on a fine 40-acre
farm two miles northwest of Tony.
He has been there for fourteen years
and has about half of his farm cleared
and plowed. He has a good set of
small buildings and keeps seven cows
and three horses. Crops are good on
the Leonhard farm this year.
Peter Nelson
Peter Nelson is one of the later ar
rivals in the neighborhOod two miles
northwest of Tony, having bought the
Frank Verhyen eighty a couple of
years ago. The west forty is all
cleared and lays fine, high and gently
rolling. The east forty is in brush
pasture more or less open. There is
a good big house and a big machine
shed on this farm.
Last year Mr.. Nelson had hay
enough to fill his barn. This year he
filed the barn and has two big stacks
of hay containing all of thirty TONS,
stacked outside.
He has four acres of fine oats, two
acres of barley, six acres of corn, and
five acres of peas. The first two and
one-half acres of early peas only
brought him $4,000 per acre above the
seed. Mr. Nelson keeps eleven head
of cows and ten head of young cattle
besides team of big horses.
John Mikyska
John Mikyska, an old settler, is one
of the good farmers living one and one
half miles west of Tony. When the
farm editor called Monday he found
John and his wife, his son, Johnnie,
and his wife and his daughter, Mrs.
Peter G. Leonhard, had left for an
auto trip to Minnesota in a new Baby
Grand Chevrolet touring car.
Mr.. Mikyska has a fine appearing
farm home surrounded by land, which,
yxyIl hoy1 LODI hn
ables the owner to buy big cars and
talks trips over the country from the
proceeds earned. The house on this
farm is a good one and while the barn
is small it is comfortable There is a
good chicken house and machine shed
and a silo on this farm.
Seventeen cows are being MIXED at
present and Bertha Cornelissen, Of
Tony, is helping with the work while
the family are away on their trip.
w. j. Kaelin
w. J. Kaelin owns 100 acres of land
one and one-half miles west of Tony.
He has Is acres under the pillow and
in cleared meadow and about 80 acres
VI IlulIcI Iduu. AUOuI 10 acres ulOIo
is brushed and seeded.
Mr.. Kaelin has a good garden and
some cultivated crops. He has four
cows and three heifers coming on. His
farm is across the railroad at the cor
ner of the road.
The house on this farm is 16X24,
and a log house is used for storage.
The barns are small but serviceable.
Mrs. Ida johnson
Mrs. Ida Johnson owns a fine 40
acre farm, two miles northwest Of
Tony. There are seven acres of tim
Der on the place, and about twenty
acres under the. pillow and in cleared
meadow, while the balance of the land
is pasture with some stumps in it.
There is a good house and fair
barn and hay shed on this farm
Eight cows and heifers and team
are the stock kept. Mrs. Johnson has
several big boys who help her with
her farm work.
Fred LeOnhard
Fred Leonhard was busy Monday
leveling the lawn in front of his fine.
new 26X30 house This house has a
full basement and is a story and a
half high with as much room upstairs
as down
Mr.. Leonhard has 40 acres brushed
and 20 acres of it under the pillow. He
has fine crops. He has four acres of
peas just beginning to fill good Mr..
Leonhard said that he was to receive
S2.65 per cwt. for the peas and to make
any money on them they should be
allowed ito fill well before being cut.
The field man has been out and asked
for the cutting to commence soon and
fine grade peas Mr.. Leonhard feels