WAUPACA  COUNTY  POST

January 5, 1928

 

Jardine Buys Two Farms

 

Abandoned Properties Have Attractive Features –

A Trout Stream and Marl Lake

 

            About the middle of last August the Otto Gunderson farm, consisting of forty acres in the town of Lind, and 160 acres in the town of Dayton, was purchased by J.F. Jardine. 85 acres have already been plowed and 65 acres limed, eight carloads of finely growned dried limestone being hauled.  This farm has been occupied by Frank Duff.

            Mr. Jardine has also recently purchased the Ira Spencer farm consisting of 224 acres in the town of Lind and he has made arrangements with Oscar Larson and Peter Nelson to get a large quantity of marl this winter from the lake which is partially on this farm.  This farm has been named Broad Acres.

            Both of these farms will be put together and developed and worked with the same machinery and labor.  Two or three other men who are also interested in farm development have offered to associate themselves with Mr. Jardine in this farm development venture, and it is likely that this will be done.

            It is not impossible that quite an acreage of the farm near Cedar Lake school may eventually be planted to trees.  One of the finest trout streams in this section crosses part of that farm which makes the property doubly desirable.  The effort to demonstrate that abandoned sandy farms may be reclaimed through use of marl and lime and produce abundantly alfalfa and other crops is very commendable, and we trust that the undertaking may prove successful as we confidently believe it will.