Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-12-14

OF farms and Z3,0U8 tenants, compared
with 1888 owners and managers and
22,302 tenants in 1920. Expressed in
percentages of all farmers, the report
says that owners have decreased
per cent, managers five-tenths of 1
per cent, while tenants have increased
five-tenths of l per cent. The total
land area of Wisconsin is said in the
report to be 35,364,00 acres. Of this
amount 22148,000 acres, or 62.8 per
cent of the entire land area of the
state is in farms.
Madison@The gross income from
Wisconsin farms was S160,000,000 less
in 1921 than in 1920, the annual report
OF Wisconsin's crop reporter shows.
A value Of S316,708,000 was placed on
the 1921 produce from farms of the
state, compared to S480,809,000 in
1920; value Of 1851, 900 in 1919
and of $499, 405,000 in 1918. sWiscon-
sins 1921 crops were worth $3.50 092,-
900, according to the report, $140,293,-
900 less than the crop for 1920. The
total value of livestock products in
| Wisconsin was $250,742,G00 compared
with 1899, 100000 in 1920.
Luck-Polk county is recognized as
one of the leading creamery butter
manufacturing districts in America.
1t was the first county to successfully
ship its butter to the Eastern markets
in carload shipments. With every
creamery in the county cooperative
and all the cooperative creameries
organized into unit No. / of the Wis
consin Cooperative Creameries asso-
citation, Polk county is also recognized
as the leading county in cooperation
Baraboo-W. L. Cash, manager of
the Baraboo telephone office, was Sc
yerely burned about the face and arms
and his 12-year-old son received burns
about the head and hands in a gaso-
line explosion at the Cash home Mr..
Cash threw the contents of can he
believed filled with oil into the fur
mace, but the can contained gasoline
and an explosion followed
Gordon-Four acres of land, COM
prising a peninsula which jutted out
into Big Eau Claire lake, Douglas
county, have dropped into the lake,
leaving sharp abuttment about thirty
feet high. The phenomenon was dis
covered by boys who have made the
peninsula playground. d. A. Merrill,
professor of geology at the Eau Claire
Normal school, is unable to explain it.
Superior-Herbert Vestin, 26, and
Alvin Olson, rs, brothersin-law, died
as the result of an explosion in well
in which Vestin was digging at the
George lie Hugude farm at Dresser
Junction, Polk county. Olson died
from the effects of gas when he de-
seconded into the shaft to rescue YES
tin, who was digging the well.
Janesville-Percy banks, Evansville
high school pupil, won first place in
the junior corn contest for the second
region at the International Livestock
exposition and grain and hay show
at Chicago. banks and Brayton Ho-
gan. Clinton, who placed fifth in the
contest, are members of the Rock
county Acre of Corn club.
Portage Mrs. Alice Herschler,
Green Bay, is held at Portage under
$500 bonds on a charge of collecting
funds for the Salvation Army without
authority. She was attired in lassie
uniform when arrested in the down
town district. Officers say she has
operated extensively in Minnesota and
Wisconsin towns.
Madison-Another six months SEES
sion of the Wisconsin legislature is
in sight as Legislators prepare to as
semble in Madison Jan. 10 for the
opening of the fifty-sixth session.
Little hope for short session is being
held out by veteran members who pre-
dict a repetition of the extended SEES
sions common in recent years.
Fond du Lac-George Nelson of Polk
county was elected president of the
Wisconsin union of the American So
ciety of Equity at convention in
Fond du Lac. He defeated ]. T. Will
grub of Monroe county by vote of
279 to 27S.
misunderstanding guilty to
statutory charge involving a 14.year-
old GAINESVILLE girl, Allen Pufahl, %,
of GAINESVILLE. was sentenced to three
years in the state reformatory at
Green Bay by Judge George Grimm.
La Crosse-Malcolm Jameson and
Vern Green shot at a rabbit which
sprang up between them in the woods
near La Crosse at the same time.
Green missed the rabbit and shot his
friend in the knee.
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