Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-08-11
Three Farms Mentioned Below
i'm the Same NeighbOrhOOd
as Those Mentioned
Last Week

BY hard work and careful living,
the farmers of Rusk county are grad
ually making fine farm homes for
themselves and getting Independent
when in many cases their start was
made with but little capital to help
them. gs
The territory east Of Ladysmith is
exceptional in this respect and is in
the lead in having large number OF
silos and waterworks systems, the lat
ter consisting of a gas engine, a gas
pipe running straight up from the
pump high enough to let the water
flow down to tank in the barn where
it is drawn over the barns into tanks
or drinking cups.
C.. Mautner
C. Mautner owns a 40-acre farm, 2
miles northeast of the city limits OF
Ladysmith, where he has been living
for IL years. He now has 50 acres
brushed and seeded and a dozen acres
are under the pillow. There is a good,
little house, log barn, hay shed and
other buildings on this farm. The
crops this year consisted Of corn, po-
tatoes, oats, millet and peas. The
peas were harvested and brought S33
per acre. Mr. Mautner has seven COWS
and some young cattle, and keeps a
team. The hay ON this farm yielded
between two and three tons per acre.
Geo. LeOnhard
Geo Leonhard has lived on his 80
acre farm, two miles northeast OF the
city limits of Ladysmith since 1910.
He has good two-story house, 2Sx3O,
with 9-foot addition on the east end.
His barn is 36x70, and is equipped
with stanchions, drinking cups and
other modern appliances. Water is
forced from the well to the barn
through pipes There are Il cows and
10 head of heifers and pure-bred
Guernsey bull. Three horses are kept.
One forty is nearly all cleared, there
being 80 acres under the pillow. A ,doz-
en- or more acres are brushed and seed
ed for pasture. There are five acres
of corn, seven of oats and barley, and
four acres were in peas that brought
500 per acre. Twelve acres of hay
made Sc big loads.
A. F. Mautner
A. F. Mautner started with wild
forty, two miles east of Ladysmith, %
years ago, and seven years ago bought
the adjoining forty west Of his build
ings. Now Mr.. Mautner has one of
the finest farms in the county located
among other farms that are in the
same class The land of this farm is
high and gently rolling like most of
the other land in that part Of the
county This being the case, one good
farms in town, county, state or
nation. The house on this farm is
24x2S, two stories and the barn is 36x
J 81. 1t is equipped with stanchions
drinking cups, manure carrier and
cement floors A fine stone basement
eight feet high, with plenty of win
dows makes the first floor of the barn
where the stock is kept.
| Fifteen high grade Guernsey cows,
three big heifers, 4 yearling heifers,
calves and 3 horses are kept. One
of the cows produced 81 pounds of
butterfat last month. Another 3-year.
old COW produced 30 pounds Mr.
Mautner has been breeding UP until ne
has a fine herd of high grade cows
He is planning on getting a couple OF
pure-bred heifers and working grad
ually into a pure4bred herd.
The calves are kept in the barn and
are properly fed to make a big
growth. The crops consist of potatoes,
corn, oats, peas and mang1e wurtzel
beets for feed. Three horses do the
work. The waterworks system, so
common in this section, is in use on
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