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Mr. Macdonald in writing of Kansas tells of Albert 

 Crane's 10,000 acre farm, on page 81 ; of the 100,000 

 acres of Mr. George Grant, of London, England, page 

 S'2 ; and of the wheat farm of Mr. T. C. Henry, near 

 Abilene, page 77. He also speaks of the "half culti- 

 vated homesteads that had been deserted," on the line 

 of the Central Branch Union Pacific Kailroad, and of 

 some of the difficulties that the small farmers encoun- 

 ter which make success impossible page 74. On 

 page 95 he writes : - 



" The ' Cattle King ' of Colorado is Mr. J. W. Iliff, of South 

 Platte. He began cattle raising on a small scale in 1861, and 

 now owns close on 35,000 cattle and nine ranches, extending to 

 over 15,000 acres, and stretching for thirty miles along the 

 north bank of the south fork of the river Platte." 



Mr. Macdonald also tells of large farms in Illinois. 

 One in Sangamon County, of 4,200 acres, belonging 

 to Mr. Sculley, from Ireland, page 129 ; and another 

 of 3,000 acres, near Berlin, known as the Grove Park 

 farm, owned by the Messrs. Browns, page 140 ; and 

 Mr. John B. Gillett, Elkhart, Macon County, has a 

 farm of 12,000 acres, a considerable portion of which 

 is devoted to Indian corn, the larger part being raised 

 by tenants, page 144. He says that 



" A considerable extent of this State is worked by tenants 

 who pay a money rent of about three dollars per acre, or a cer- 

 tain proportion of the crops grown a third, or a half, or two 

 fifths." Page 130. 



California is noted for its farms of thousands of 

 acres, and the great proportion of its area that is cul- 

 tivated by tenantry. Throughout the whole extent 



