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stantially the same rate of expense ; so that the re- 

 port for the Grandin farm will closely indicate the 

 working force and methods of the others. The ac- 

 counts of each farm are kept altogether separate and 

 distinct. 



On the Cheney farm are three stations ; number 

 two having eight buildings, the other two a smaller 

 number. The Cass farm, also, has three stations, one 

 principal and two minor. The Alton farm has two 

 stations, both being small. 



Everywhere upon these three farms were observed 

 the same evidences of good husbandry, substantial 

 and well kept buildings and improvements, tools and 

 stock that was seen on the Grandin farm. In none 

 of the fields were weeds to be seen, nor tools grass 

 grown and covered in the field edges and corners, nor 

 doors nor gates hanging by single hinges. 



Here as in parts of Kansas and Minnesota, are no 

 field fencings. The face of the country is one broad, 

 unbroken tract, except for an occasional station of the 

 large farms, or small farm buildings. 



Most persons in reading of fields described by hun- 

 dreds and thousands of acres can form but little idea 

 of their actual or comparative sizes. To assist to a 

 better understanding of the sizes of these fields and 

 farms I will state that Manhattan Island, the site of 

 the City of New York, has an area of about twenty- 

 two square miles, or 14,000 acres. The fields of grain 

 of the three farms lying together contain an area of 

 10,477 acres, or about three fourths of the area of the 

 City of New York. The Grandin farm of 40,000 

 acres has nearly space enough for three cities like 



