Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-04
FINE BUNCH OF PROGRESS
I'VE RUSK COUNTY FARMS

price for them to make things fair.
This is the sentiment expressed by
most of the pea growers along this
road.
Mr.. Leonhard has a fair barn and
keeps eleven cows and three horses.
Louis Lombard
Louis Leonhard has lived on his 80
acre farm two miles west of Tony, for
the past 16 years. Starting in the
brush, green timber and stumps Mr..
Leonhard has built up beautiful
farm home.
This farm is all brushed except 20
acres and 80 acres are stumped and
in a high state of cultivation. Pota-
toes planted ON this farm May ~ are
now yielding a fine crop. Other crops
are looking good. He has corn, oats
and a big meadow. He got more hay
this year than ever before and has a
fine stack containing about 10 tons
stacked outside. Nine cows, 6 head of
young stock, horses, and u pigs are
the livestock kept.
Refuses To Sell
A buyer for this farm offered 500
refused Mr. Leonhard preferred to
sell the place to his son and will move
to Ladysmith where he has bought
home
Another Good Orchard
In speaking of orchards there is
one of unusual merit on the L. Leon
hard farm five miles east of Lady
smith. A few years ago the Leon
hards got two barrels of apples from
Fond du Lac county and liked them
so we'll that they planted some of the
seed. They now have about thirty
fine apple trees from that planting
and they are about twelve feet high,
very hardy and full of apples.
Rusk county is destined to take a
lead in apples, plums and other big
fruit as well as all kinds of small
fruit which is now yielding abund-
ant1y in the wild as well as the cul-
tivated state.
Hollow Elm Drain
A hollow elm drain is placed in the
ditch at the approach of Fred Leon
hard's farm, and it is answering the
purpose as well as boughten culTert.
A man handy with a saw and axe can
make a lot of things from the woods
that do just as well as any others, and
the cost is practically nothing besides
the work.
Martin SimOns
Martin Simons has owned 40 acres
of land three miles northeast of Lady
smith for the past three years, and
moved onto it last fall, coming from
Illinois. He has built a small house
and barn and cleared up a piece of
land in the southeast corner. For the
time Mr.. Simons has been operating he
has made very good progress, and
will soon have his farm producing
good hay and other crops
Beats Illinois
Mr.. SimOns is very much enthused
with this country and said. that we
were beating McHenry county, ILL.,,
where he came from. Down there he
said the pastures were bare of feed
and the farmers were forced to feed
hay and corn fodder to their cattle
now. Land there is very high priced
but it don't produce as much of any
thing except corn, as Rusk county does,
acre for acre.
Frank Convey
l.
acre farm one and One-half miles
northeast of the city limits of Lady
smith, for IA years His buildings are
poor but he is planning on fixing his
house and building a good basement
barn. He will try to put in the foun-
dation this fall and cover it with a
temporary roof until he can get around
to build the barn. This will give him
good shelter for his stock and room
for lot of hay overhead There are
II acres under the pillow and about So
acres brushed. He has eleven cows
and heifers, a good Chester White
brood sow and a team.
There are some big boys in this fam
lily to help with the work
John thinner
John thinner, pioneer of his terri
tory, miles northeast of Ladysmith,
has his SO-acre home farm looking
good this year as is usual for this fine
farm. There is collection of beau
tiful flowers, shrubs, and trees grow
ing in his front yard
The house on this place is a good.
roOmy one and all the room is needed
as there are Is living children in the
family, all single. and all make their
headquarters at the old farm hearth,
when not working away from the
farm.
The barns are small but Mr.. Zim-
mer is laying plans for fine, big, new
barn which he needs.
On this eighty there is about 30
acres. of land under the pillow and in
cleared meadow Six acres Of oats,
four of corn, eight acres of millet, and
8 acres of peas. besides hay, are the