Grant County Herald

Mr. and Mrs. Willard Burney, who have been visiting with their brother-in-law, Hon. C. J. Weittenhiller and wife, have gone to Stitzer to spend a week with their daughter, Lenice. They will return to Platteville before going to their home in Hartington, Nebraska. Mr. Burney was a former Platteville boy and received his education at the Platteville Normal. His wife was a daughter of Obed Jones, formerly of White Oak. Mr. Burney made good in the west and is one of the richest farmers of Cedar county, Neb. His sons on his farm are in the cattle feeding business. They filled their 30,000 bushel elevator with corn which cost them 22 to 30 cents a bushel. They fed it to steers which they bought at Sioux City at $44 per head, and sold them for $10.40 per cwt., clearing $75 per head. Mr. Burney thinks Southwest Wisconsin is hard to beat for farming, but thinks the confining dairy business ought to be better paid, as the dairyman has little time for enjoyment, while the steer men have more leisure to take the family to entertainments and to other forms of pleasure.