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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-26
RUSK COUNTY FARM ITEMS
News That Will Interest Our City
Readers as Well as the Tillers
of the Soil

A big land clearing demonstration
will be held at Rhinelander on May
%, 26 and 27 by the E. A. Drott Trac-
tor Co. who will use the Holt tractor
to clear land.
Alvin Downing, who has been clear
ing land on the Lewis ranch down near
Island Lake for the last three years,
has a new patch of brushing about
completed. John Luethi has charge
of the ranch.
A. E. Powell and family drove to
Ladysmith from their farm home
near Island Lake Monday. The Pow
ell ranch consists of about 1000 acres
and was sold last fall to O. G. Peter
son of Minneapolis, but Mr.. Powell
still has charge Of the place. The son,
Max, who graduated from the Lady
smith highschool in 1919, recently
returned from trip to Chicago.
e. L. Jay said Monday that a man
had sown se r,..n.tiC1ers broadcast on q
piece of quack infested land last year
and had succeeded in completely
smothering quack, weeds and all by
that method.
j. G. Groen finished blowing Mon
day and has his farm in fine shape
for big crops this year. Mr.. Groen
has a pair of big boys who help with
the farm work. They are milking 10
cows at present, and have bunch of
calves that are doing fine.
When his auto turned over into a
ditch near Stone Lake, Douglas Dick
inson, of that place, was drowned in
three feet of water Miss Kate Jor-
dan, who was with him was only
slightly injured. Dickinson was a vet
eran of the World war.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-26
FOLLY OF WIDE MARGINS,

Too wide margins invite compe
tition in any line. The high freights
charged by railroads have opened a
strong line of competition in auto
buses and auto trucks all over the
country
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-26
Blasting Cradle Knobs

Some of the biggest knobs that lay
Just right for effective work are blast
ed which saves time and horsepower.
Dynamite is one of the best agents for
land clearing and liberal use Is made
of it on the Big Seven ranch after
other cheaper means have been en-
ployed on the job.
The stumps are removed, the sur
face stones are hauled off the field
with an extra horse that is used by
the brushing crew. Some are thrown
into holes, where they can be covered
with foot or more of dirt. The lev
cling is then done and the whole field
is surface plowed with a getaway disc
The tongue was sawed off just be-
hind the whippletrees, so that three
horses can work on it with ease and
pull it around the corner with their
tugs instead of turning it with their
necks, as is necessary when tongue
is used. A real bog pillow with plenty
of power would do a better job.
Re-Seeded To Glover
After the surface blowing is COM
pleted a leveling harrow is used to
put the field into better shape, going
once over the whole field and then
driving over the worst places a few
extra times, as is always done with
the cutaway disc. Seeding to clover
and timothy is the next step and the
whole field receives a light seeding as
| there is clover over large portion of
the land which will come up again af-
ter the land is leveled. The bare spots
are given an extra dose of seed with
a mixture of spring vetch and millet.
Vetch and sudan grass would be bet
ter mixture, but as we have the millet
we are going to use it up first, then we
will change to vetch and sudan grass.
Sheep are the Best
Our small flock of sheep are the
best thing in the way of livestock
| that we have on the farm. We traded
| a couple of young cows for y ewes
and 8 lambs a year ago last fall. We
traded three goats for couple of
ewes. From this start we now have
| head of sheep and the total num-
| Der should he around so head inside of
| the next week. We have two crops of
wool, have lost only two sheep, and
| have butchered a half dozen wethers
| that were fat and fine.
No Grain Feed
Contrary to the best methods of
raising sheep, this flock has never had
a pound of grain since coming onto
the Big Seven ranch. They had to be
| fed hay four months last winter and
two and one-half months the winter
before. The balance of the time they
have made their living on the clover
and brush pasture and have kept it
we'll all the time, as this land all lays
high They have had too large a
range to do the best work as brushers
to date.
Will Make Them Brush
This season we are planning on
fencing off small tracts of land and
putting the sheep in so that they will
hayn to cut tha emo II hrI1Sh ont before
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-26

Rusk county's clover is simply Won
derful this year.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-26
FARM EDITOR
BUYS DYNAMITE
Land That Has Received t h e
''Rusk County Plan" Treat
ment is Now Being Fin
ished For Meadow
and PlOW Land

The farm editor purcha sed 200
pounds of dynamite last week which
he will use in taking out the few stub
born stumps that are left on some of
the land after few years of Oper-
ating on the Rusk county plan of burn
ing and seeding, and brushing and
seeding, on his Big Seven ranch, six
miles northeast of Ladysmith.
Land on the Big Seven ranch that
would have cost $40 to $50 per acre
to clear five years ago, can now be
cleared for from S. to $40 per acre.
There is a solid mat of clover and tim
othy on lot of this land and the
ground is mellow and rich. This
change from wild jungle to clover
fields is worth going miles to see.
Easy To Work
The stumps, after this kind of treat
me.lt, are very easy to work out
and most OF them can be pulled with
a team, pole and line, or block and
tackle A few of the worst pine must
be blasted to complete the clearing
job.
The cradle knolls'' are then plowed
down with a sulky riding pillow with
three horses pulling it. The brush
grubs are nearly all rotten and offer
no resistance to the pillow. This is the
best rig to pillow cradle knobs where
the grubs are well rotted and is very
much better than using walking
pillow which necessitates the work of
two men, one to drive and one to hold
the pillow, while only one man is neces-
sary on the riding pillow and he can
ride part of the time when the ground
is not TOO rOuoh
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-26
CITY MAN FARMER
EXTRAORDINARY
S. J. Cardinal Is Optimistic
Over Rusk County And Its
Possibilities AS a Hay
Growing Country

S. J. Cardinal is proving to be a
farmer extraordinary. He owns 12O
acres of land three miles south of the
edge of Ladysmith. Nearly one-third OF
this land along the north road is high,
well cleared and in a fine state OF Gull
tivation. A good share of it is in
meadow and one of the best clover
fields in the county is on this farm.
There are three acres that were
treated with Is loads of manure and
600 pounds of lime. This was applied
on meadow land and is being plowed 3
inches deep. This land will be worked
down and then plowed again six or
seven inches deep so as to thoroughly
mix the manure and lime with the
soil The land will then be planted to
peas and seeded down.
Will Grow Hay Crops
The balance of the farm is drained
swamp land and is rich as manure
heap. Mr.. Cardinal had between 80
and so acres of this land, all of it, in
fact plOwed last fall with a big plow
and tractor. The job was well done
but it was done too late to get it
worked up so that it could be seeded
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-26
Will Make Them Brush

This season we are planning on
fencing off small tracts of land and
putting the sheep in so that they will
have to cut the small brush out before
we change them to another fresh
patch. In this way we expect to
brush several acres of our farm at AZ
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Crossing Broadway of himself
the ndnost Hipbooted they looked good

ten years WAS constantly in court 40 4 Wit
ness Of collision accidents
IF there any corner liked less it was
Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue used
to hate to go up there. That was way up town
In those days, but the drivers Of the privats
coaches who travelled by there were that arro-
CANT regarding traffic direction they'd almost
poke you through the back with their carriage
poles"
After a strenuous day Of this sort Of thne
the Broadway Squad, the captain relates, would
march back to their station house, which was
adjacent to Woods Gymnasium. And there
the squad would take their recreation by work.
outs with Fitzsimmons, Corbett Kid Mccoy
and others of the famous boxers Of the day.
The husky lads of the squad made good spar
ring partners, for most Of them were athletes
themselves. And putting on the gloves, even
with Bob and Jim and the Kid may have been
restful after the days real work.
1t the Broadway Squad that was called
upon to rise to the occasion when the first
automobiles were projected into New York's
traffic. They handled the situation, although =
peculiar quirk in the design of the contrap-
tions did much to battle them at first. AS Cap
tain Keleher tells it:
"Most of the first autos we met with were
electric, and the trouble was the darn things
were steered from the rear seat somewhere.
We could always tell the direction a horse was
taking by the turn of his head and the point Of
the pole, but the intentions Of those rear
seat steerers kept us guessing and hopping.
"As time passed traffic got easier to HANDLE"
the captain continued "The handicap of the
police, who lacked authority to make rules
binding law, gradually overcome, and
the growth Of the city made rules necessary
and binding. The first real regulation was
under Commissioner McAdoo, now chief city
magistrate, and others carried it on. Now
they have it down pretty fine"
The captain sighed with his barrel chest, ~
If lamenting the transition OF traffic from the
heroic to the mechanical age.
eve were public characters, We Of the
squad" he rumbled. "They all knew us and
liked US around stations, except perhaps
the traffic for while. In the days when /
used to steer the traffic at Dead Mans Curve
and watched to see that nothing was swiped
from the carriages standing out in front Of
Tiffany's, Harry Graham was at Twenty
third Street, Archie Taggart ct soms other
Broadway post. Peter Pryor 1T Canal and
John Liebler at Prince-au six-footsrA ali
men.
"Humph" the captain mused. "UnderstanA
they're going to do It all with elsetxis ighta
soon"
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Once Up0na TimeNew
York Not Only Didn't
Kn0W Where 1t Was
Going, but Was VERY
Seldom, on Its Way

day. "Traffic direction was knock DOWN and
dragout affair. 1t life saver I was"
The captain sat down, ccasng TO tower from
his six feet three inches of height His eyes
twinkled, he inflated barrel chest and began
his narrative
"In 1895 my station was at Dead Mans
Curve. The old horsecar line which the
Doodle Board Of Aldermen had grated through
on Broadway superseded by the cable
cars. You'd think those cars would be making
complications the street and SO they did
but they helped the traffic some for all that
You see, account Of their tracks they ran on
the right side of the street and in the right
direction and that had its influence on traifia
which was inclined to be contrary.
''But those cables made trouble. Those cars
would be picking the cable up at Thirteenth
Street and not leaving go their grip until they
were round the curve and to Fifteenth Street
Woe be to the obstacles to them in the mean
time The gripper would get caught some
times In the strands Of the cable and then there
was no stopping the cars. Up the street
they'd come showing coaches push carts ana
everything ahead of them When / saw that
happening, I'd run to the walk and pun
a hook in little box. Thatd stop the cables
FOR an hour or so, until repair men came and
went underground and unwound them Fog
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

scans 70 faai csrtain that the proper a1leviattvs
always will DO recommended in time. for hs
keeps on growing stouter, and II need should
arise he undoubtedly would not hesitate to re-
sort to some form Of traffic telepathy, he's that
advanced
Almost exertionless win b. tho act Of ruler
q traffic when he sends forth his electric
e0ct Ir fact, his pressure Of the control
alton will hardly require tho changing Of an
Energy dollar
fsther Knickerbocksr now, when hs looks
lack on his earlier cures, recalls ailments when
he treatment was far more strenuous and
sroic That was in the days when the orig
al Ira1hc Squad handsome, hefty and husky,
1rched forth from the old 27th Precinct STA
{ to do battle on Broadway That event did
: take place until the early 70's.
New York may be said to have had little
! sffic problem all its own for many years.
[ It'll the first squad came on the scene traffic
Erection was haphazard, catch-as-catch-can.
individual sort of q feat Rather than the
guidance Of vehicles, 1t was life saving Of
! destrans. The statement is made that prior
1903 in American Cities there were no
lea for driving known to drivers or the po-
lice; they simply did the best they could-and
!. at .uperhuman though it was at times,
wasn't SO good.
So cstaclysmlc was traffic at Broadway and
Fulton Street as early az 1868 that the city
t~<L - A..
drum: How does pedestrian cross the road?
Aoew's bridge, arched across the thoroughfare,
xas the only solution that occuxred, and thou
sands footed it up and over and down again,
rather than wait for what might turn out to
% Ap opportunity to cross tho street or ride
IN An ambulance, as the case might be. It
seemed the part of wisdom to ascend tenn
po1arily rather than permanently.
buslness men had been the petitioners for
sns bridge, according to an account by Daniel
T. Brown in Valentines Manual for 1922 The
v0'cs OF r. 7. Barnum, access to whose Mu-
ssum on the corner Of Ann Street was con-
"oe1soy impeded by tho traffic, was raised
oudest~ The bridge was named In honor of
ne gentleman who presided ovsr the council
ssoatss at that period.
- sssposs Of ths bridge Il sid to havs
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

tn It's goings and com{ngs to the change Of
color Of few lights. Note the i'll grace with
which pedestrian traffic submits to regula-
tion to-day at Forty second Street and Fifth
Avenue, that busiest corner, and you have ar
inkling Of the universal contempt and impa-
tience with which the public received the early
attempts at traffic direction.
One and all endured much before knucklinR
to the dictation Of that now unquestioned mon-
arch, the traffic cop Society, for instance,
bided its impatient time, waiting for carriages
an average of one hour and half at the
Metropolitan Opera House. Regulation later
reduced this to half hour. What with the
difficulties incident to arrival at the opera,
the three or four hour session and the long
drawn out homecoming, one made quite night
Of it feasting ones soul on song.
Into that melee, which was New York traffic,
picture which the foregoing paragraphs have
essayed to visualize, came the doughty Broad
way Squad, with its only precedent the
sional detail Of patrolmen at busy corners to
escort people across the street-a service
which the evidence Of prints would seem to in
dcate was monopoized by pretty girls.
They were fine figures Of men, were the
giants of the Broadway Squad, the pick Of the
force. They were chosen for their physique
and height-they were all six feet tall and
better, seeming with their high helmets to
loom into the seven-foot class. The Of
the squad strobe forth to their posts from the
old 9th Precinct and directed trafTlc by might
and main. Traffic didn't wish in the least to
be directed 1t wasn't enough for the patrol
man to hold up a restraining hand. pair
of shaggy percherons might step it and
him. He had to hold up the hand and push
with it. And the squad-100 men it came to
aggregate-had to hold up spirited advances
and stubborn resistance on front which
ranged from Whitehall and Beaver streets
north to Forty-second Street Broadway,
taking In the crossings at Fifth Avenue and
Fourteenth Street, Fifth Avenue and Twenty
third Street and Fifth Avenue and Forty-sec-
ond Street.
Many Of those veterans of the old Broadway
Squad may still be found uphodng law and
order in these parts. If not still on the force,
they may be observed adding to their pension
stipend by serving gray clad bank guards
or running private detective agencies. En-
gagged in the last pursuit is Bernard Keleher,
retired captain Of New York police and ere
that tower Of strength on the Broadway
Traffic Squad holding sway at Fourteenth
Street and Broadway, that crossing which once
was inaptly known as Dead Mans Curve.
'"Trafic had to be physically enforced in
those days." the captain reminisced the other
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

before tho advent Of tho automobile They
would tell you that when Of Sunday they
tripped down Harlem Lane for a walk in the
country, toeing out elegantly, father point
ing out places Of interest with his cane,
ever and anon they were enveloped in clouds
Of dust and had to take to the roadside for
their lives There was no such thing as tho
right side Of the road. Speeding was the forte
Of the proud owner Of fast trotters and rapid
PAGERS. There were no horns to sound and
brakes were long time brakng One was
agile and one was alert or one came to wonder
how far up his backbone spanking pair Of
bays drawing a plush lined barouche had pro-
Rressed before diverted.
Until 1885, when the Brooklyn Bridge came
to the rescue, the ferry approaches offered the
most horrible examples in the way Of traffic
snarls and jams. A trip to Brooklyn via the
old Fulton Ferry was sufficient occasion for
the wishing Of bon voyage. West Street,
South Street and other parts of the water
front long bore q resemblance to most Chi
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

nese puzzles. with component sections rep
resented by drays and trucks and the whole
laid on = rutty cobblestone base
Until the dawn Of the present century traffic
in New York had a delightfully."- unexpected
way about it. The driver or rider or walker
could foretell mono Of the moves Of his, 80 to
speak, opponents. No one kept to the right
when he happened to want to go to the left.
Ono parked al over the place. Even the horse
cars, oldtimers relate, did not consider them
selves in the least bound by the fact that they
ran on tracks; jam Of drays on the track
ahead merely would cause the motorman-
driver to bear sharp to the right OK left, de-
tour and rejoin the rails at the next convenient
opportunity.
From this hit-or-miss method Of traffic 1t
was no mean task to dissuade the public.
Being set In its ways, it resented all new
tangled notions, and 4 merry ha-ha would
have greeted any visionary who ventured to
predict that in few years all rolling stock
On the highways and byways would conform
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

been somewhat perverted. Crossers insisted
In hating thereon to enjoy the view Of Broad
way and there was also this complication
which Mr.. Brown thus relates,
"Iho bridge was very pretty one, Of open
iron work construction, with four stairs, one
from each corner, and think that this sams
open work played some part In the removal
for 1t this period the ladies' fashions were
svoluting from what was known as the hoop
skirt period to that Of the Grecian bend, with
its large hustle and kangaroo walk The
ladies also wore short skirts, displaying pretty
booties, with laces from which dangled tasselA
Apropos Of this fashion, our old friend Tony
Pastor composed song, few lines of which
I remember as follows,
~rhsy tassels on their booth
It's just the style 10: euitG
Those naughty girls with n
wore tassels their bootA
"And l remember that the males Of that
period, myself included, used to congregats
around those corners about noon on fine days.
to admire those pretty tassels which so
0AA0>Neu eA0 SVo10 O1u VeStIyNen OF 81 TRul B.
that they were glad to get rid Of them, fear
Ing no doubt that the dead ones, in the grave
yard might arise to take peep"
AS traffic began to thicken the experts OF
the day would take seats at windows at differ
ent points of vantage around tho town, where
they would stroke their sideburn whiskers and
tabulate statistics collars. The collars in
question were the large size oval models worn
by all the best regulated horses and these
utilitarian adornments were generally accepted
as convenient units Of traffic measurement.
They did; not pass the point of observation
with too great rapdty to bc missed by the
eagle eyes Of the counters. At the end of
day Of tabulation, probably the abstruse con-
clusion would be reached that the traffic at
Broadway and Fourteenth Street was mon
strously heavy and something really ought to
be done about it; in fact, it would be agreed
that someone really ought to go abroad and
study the problem in London where traffic was
reputed to be remarkably handled. This would
be promptly agreed upon.
If the smartly attred gentleman and the
lady and little girl in crinolines could step
from the daguerreotype, they would tell you
that psdestrians rights were endangered long
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

EUey time hear erowlng traffic condon
the subvay and all Knckerbocker
think of whot dads and grandads put up .vh in this town
OF These pictures wW
the fop for instance That
of ST. auF Church. broadway vas like thar all
the north south
at Notice that dumpcort knocking ds apples?
Talk about automobiles! policeman had raise
his hand in those days.; he had to push svith IT.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
A Story of Its Growth
From Control BY Brute
Force to the Upraised
Gloued Hand and the
Pressure of q Button

~ ONE day, and not distant one If plans
are realized, New York's ruler Of traf-
~ fic will sit at his control board In one
Of the centrally located skyscrapers and
exetrise a sway most absolute over the thor
ouehfares Of the city. He will press button,
electricity will fame and crackle in the swtchea
Of his huge dspatcher's tower and lamps, red,
rreen or yellow will fash from Fourteenth
Street 70 Harlem. Like automatons, long lines
Of vehicles and pedestrians will halt and other
streams gliding into motion, will criss-cross
br their span, until in their turn their current
u stilled by the signal lights
The upraised, white gloved hand, tho whistle
blast the turnstile signal, the light towers,
le all-directing electric switch. Such Is tho
.accesaion Of home made remedies which
Father Knickerbocker has taken during the
threo decades tho doctor has been warning him
that the traffic pressure in his arteries v.s
getting alarmingly nigh and consequences
could not be answered for unless somethino
was done to lower it, Each prescription has
done wonders for the old gentleman on CO.
ehsons nhen he almost was despaired OF Ha
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-12
5-ROOM COTTAGE


Tbs o@ner 81 this hsne lives
in wenatrhse. ard has author.
lxsd sne to A~ii IL at the low
rflrr ~ $3.50 lie says he must
have money quick. and the price
ought to fnhke sale for bin
wtkhtn - hours lie would like
10 have half cash. but I believe
he would take f140 cash. and
easy payments ON balance Prop
erty il tu North End II city. -
block from eartlns This IL sure
~ . snAp for someone. AK about
al NO. ia
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-12

L. eo0--Good sixroom house with
bath. fun basement. furnace and
extra storage space In attic. II has
well-kept yard on paved street.
with all assessments paid: lot foxi00
10 alley; sure to increase In value.
Located at 239T E.astiakc ave. This
~ one OF the biggest bargains W.
have had in months. Terms. $1,000
cash. balance monthly. Phone Al
6s. Main 7I14.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-12
10 ACRES
IMPROVED RANCH
81, DGe--EASY TERMS

THIS ranch "a located near Port
MadisOu close to dock. funfsrn
s.roan home. good barns. sh~iH.
etc. / cow and calf. IS rhiekrnes
owner will accept Seattle prop
ertr up 10 " eco a@ part pay
ms~nk Owner IL very anxious 70
dispose Of this place and move 70
Seattle. ard wfil make good
deaf for aulck action. Ask about
al No. los