Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-16
The Farms From the Sam John
son Corner West and South
For Four Miles Are
Showing Much
Progress
A. j. Waller

acre farm one-fourth of a mile west
of the Sam Johnson schoOlhouse for
the past three years. He has house,
saving to double the size of it and
make it a story and a half in height.
His barn is 1Sx4O, with a lean-to 16x
49, He has purchased a silo 12x30,
which he will erect this summer. He
has about 10 acres in crops and hay
and a dozen acres more cleared for
blowing. There is a fence around 20
acres of land that he uses for pasture
and there is lot of redtop and blue
joint in it. He has set out a small
orchard west of his house. He keeps
three horses, six milk cows and elev-
EN- head of young cattle.
He has three brood sows that pro-
duced twenty-four pigs this la s t
spring.
VIM. Wetterling
VIM. Wetterling has lived on his
10O-acre farm three years and a half.
This farm, half mile west of the
Sam Johnson schoolhouse, was well
improved when he got it. There is a
house, 1Sx26 and 14x2O.
His barn is 30x70 with 12-foot posts
and the walls for the basement are
two feet thick, built of stone and S1a-
feet high. His silo is 12x24 with a
four-foot pit. Mr. Wetterling said he
just got his silage fed out this spring
when water came into the pit which
would have spoiled the silage.
His farm is in a fine state of cult
walton and about 70 acres are under
the pillow and in crops and meadow.
Fifteen acres is in pasture along the
river and a dozen acres is marsh land
Mr.. Wetterling has herd of %
head OF cattle and keeps two pairs of
horses to do his work. One SOW gave
birth to eleven pigs this spring.
Two big sons help their father on
the Wetterling farm
o. e. Anderson
.. e. Anderson owns 174-acre
farm one mile west of the Sam John
son schoolhouse. Forty acres of this
land is across the road south of the
buildings. Most of this forty is in a
high state of cultivation. On field
west of the house is a field of eight
acres of peas that IRE fine. Other
crops are: 10 acres of corn, IA acres of
oats, and 10 acres of clover. Some
new land is being broken for late
crops This land has been raising
clover so that it is ready to cultivate.
The house and barn are large, we'll
built buildings and a silo will be
erected this summer. The plan is to
build fine new dairy barn OH this
farm north of the other buildings in
a year or two. Four horses, 80 head
OF cattle and a few head of hogs are
kept on this farm.
Mr.. Anderson has some boys who
are a big help to him.
j. C. Votruba
j. G. Votruba lives ON his eighty
acre farm across the road southwest
Of the O. e. Anderson farm, four
miles southwest of Ladysmith.
He also owns 40 acres west of the |
home farm. He has a good house
md last year he built a new barn
and equipped it with Stanchions. stalls. |
cement floors and managers. He also i
mas a good machine she'd. Over half |
IF his land is brushed and seeded and
20 acres of this has been plOwed for
.rops and meadows
Two horses, two sows and eight |
Digs, six cows and couple of heifers
Ire the livestock kept
Mr.. V0truba and son George, are
some new land on their west |
eighty at the present time.
Joe Nemec
Joe Nemec has lived on his 4O-acre
farm, miles south of Ladysmith for
three years. He has Is acres brushed |
and seeded and has some of it plowed. |
He has small set of buildings and |
cattle.
Frank Karas
Frank Karas lives near the Nemec |
farm and has a small house that he |
plans on moving and then he will
build barn. He has five acres
brushed and a couple of acres plowed |
He has few cows.
M. l.. Meyers
M. L. Meyers has lived on his 40
acre farm five miles southwest of La
1ysmith, for couple of years. His
and is high and most Of it has clover
growing on it. He is planning on
picking up the debris and leveling
his land and growing clover to NOW
;or year or two. Some of his land
S plowed and in crops and clover.
#. j. HERMAN