Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-04


Mr.. Hadden has simpler way that
he says is very effective. He takes a
log 80 feet long as heavy as team
can handle and after blowing the
knobs he drives up to them and pro-
ceeds to twist around with the log
until they are leveled. Either of the
above are simple and inexpensive and
have proven their worth on the Rochat
and MADDEN farms northeast Of La
dysmith. The knobs must be free from
stone, grubs or roots to do the best
work.
were delivered brought $26 per acre
net. Twelve cows are milking and
ten head of young stock, four fine hogs
and two teams are kept for use on the
home eighty. The boys have some
horses of their own and all told they
have eleven of them. The boys also
own land of their own and their COM
bined holdings of Rusk county's land
makes total of several hundred acres.
James Frost
James Frost has 81 acres of fine
land IL miles northeast of the city
limits of Ladysmith. He has out
crops of oats, corn, potatoes, mangles,
barley, field peas and hay.
Mr. Frost does his own work and
realizes that he is farming too much
in finishing the clearing of few scat
tered stumps and leveling his hay land.
He has good-sized acreage of this
hay land that could be made to pro-
duce big crops of hay if he would seed
down his plowed land and get his hay
land in shape to produce.
From 10 acres Mr.. Frost got 80 good
sized loads of hay
There is a good house, a fair barn
and hay shed on this land. When
Jimmie gets his land all into hay he
will have the world by the heels.
G N. McElravy
g. n McElravy owns one of the
best forties in Rusk county 1t is To-
Gated two miles northeast of Lady
smith. + He has it all brushed off ex-
cept an acre or two of young timber
which he has under4brushed and left
for shade for stock and a wood lot.
The big pasture is full of alsike which
is growing profusely among the few
scattered stumps.
Mr.. McElravy has small acreages of
peas, corn, millet, and potatoes, and
a big garden. Three acres of peas
netted him $216.22 and they were
grown on comparatively new land
which had been broken from old pas
ture
Six acres of hay made 20 tons and
filled his big mows to OVERLOOKING.
There is a good small house and barn
with storage sheds on this farm. Eight
head of cattle, part of which are pure
bred Guernseys, and fine big team
are the livestock kept. Mr.. McElravy
will sell all his grade cattle this fall
and replace them with pure BREEDS
j. H. Rochat
J. III. Rochat owns good eighty
3 miles northeast of Ladysmith, and
has lived there since 1917. The build
ings which include a big two-story
square house and a barn with hay
shed attached, were there when he
bought it.
Mr.. Rochat has a good clean field of
corn and potatoes east of his house.
A two-horse riding cultivator is used
in cultivating and his potatoes and
corn are planted in check rows so that
he can pillow them both ways.
He has put up lot of hay this. year.
A stone hauler and loader is made
from two S-inch planks with 6-inch
plank bolted on the rear end and
chain at the front end so that it acts
as a scissors in closing under the stone
and lifting it from the ground He
showed the farm editor some stone
that he had put into hole he had
blasted, and he said he never did any
thing to the stone after they were on
top of the ground except to use the
loader on them. He drills hole six
feet deep and puts seven sticks of dy-
Mantle into it and blows out hole to
of ground. This is neat way of get
ting them out of sight and is better
than hauling far or piling in the field.
Paul and Bill
Paul Wevslke and Bill Putinski, bet
ter known in the HaaSl neighborhood
as Mutt and Jeff, own 80 acres of fine
land across the road east of the Haasl
schoolhouse. They have nice cot
tage enclosed and besides three acres
under the pillow and in crops they have
several acres brushed. The boys are
and as yet have no barn and
keep no livestock.
Joe Haasl
Joe Haasl is harvesting more and /
bigger crops than usual this fall as he |
has rented the Fritz eighty adjoining |
his farm on the west. He has a good |
set of buildings and improves his farm
Zach year so as to make a better home
Ind income. He has big stack of