870 WISCONSIN AGEICULTUKE. 



for the absence of a decent barn, who owns a good prairie farm, 

 and works it with reasonable industry. 



And now, to conclude my cursory remarks upon the home- 

 stead and the farmer, it is proper to say, that with careful judg- 

 ment in selecting and designing the buildidgs and locations, 

 and a moderate outly of money — properly prepared groute walls, 

 cisterns, filters — an expense for fences, much less than is re- 

 quired to clear and grub forest lands — a small parcel of peach 

 and apple seeds — a dollar's worth of locust and thorn seeds, for 

 groves ; armed in this way, an industrious farmer with his team 

 going into the open prairies, can present a better improved, 

 more productive and pleasant farm in three years, than can pos- 

 sibly be done in the timber lands in ten years, beginning with 

 an equal sum of money. 



If these remarks shall have a tendency, even in a slight de- 

 gree, to elevate the taste, to stimulate the improvement, and to 

 increase appreciation by my fellow farmers of our highly favored 

 section of country — to increase their appreciation of its surpassing 

 natural advantages, I shall rejoice and feel amply compensated 

 for my humble efforts in that direction, hoping that our aims 

 may correspond to the surrounding fields. 



