Bio: Johnson, Rudolph – Growing Tobacco (1904)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Johnson

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 29 Dec 1904

That Clark County is adapted to the raising of as many different crops as any section of the state has been proven many times over by as many different demonstrators.

Recently we visited the field of Rudolph Johnson, who lives south of Stanley in the Town of Worden (Clark County). This patch contains about two acres of as fine appearing tobacco as we ever noted growing anywhere. It is his second crop from the same patch. In fact it is the second crop the ground has had on it.

Mr. Johnson came from Westby, Vernon County, five years ago. There he raised and worked with tobacco for twenty years, and knows the business from A to Z. He says this country is admirably adapted to the culture of the weed and, if anything, produces a finer and better grade than is raised below, owing largely to the excellent soil and moisture conditions. He has on hand about 1100 pounds that he raised last year, a sample of which we have on exhibition in the office.

With the experiments that have been made by many others in the county and that is being made on a large scale by parties near Stanley, there can be no doubt this will be a valuable source on income for Clark County farmers in the near future.