24 UNION COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



ELI EDDEMAN, 



DONGOLA, UNION COUNTY. 



Successful Winter Wheat Farming in ^'Egypt'" — A Country 

 Well Adapted for Horticulture. 



I sow about seventy-five acres of wheat every year, and 

 I usually thresh out 1,500 bushels of No. 1 wheat. I put 

 the wheat in with a Superior drill, and cut it with a Champion 

 reaper. As soon as the wheat is dry enough, I thresh it and 

 put it on the first market. I plant thirty acres in corn every 

 year, and the yield is nearly forty-five bushels to the acre. 

 This is mostly fed to hogs and other stock. The hogs, after 

 being well fattened, are generally sold to packers and a hand- 

 some profit realized on the corn. 



' My selection of wheat land is always from my clover and 

 stubble^^ fields, which land I break in July and August, and 

 again re-break in September ; then thoroughly harrow the 

 ground before putting the seed in. 



HOGS. 



I raised for a long time the Poland China hogs, but for the 

 last few years I am breeding the Berkshires, and they pay me 

 better than the Poland Chinas. 



SHORT HORN CATTLE. 



My stock of cattle are the Short Horns, and my experience 

 in milch kine and beef cattle gives the Short Horn the prefer- 

 ence. For storage for hay, grain, and the shelter and protec- 

 tion of stock, I have a two-story barn, 44x36 feet, well shedded 

 on all sides, so that none of the stock need be exposed to the 

 weather. Twelve acres are usually sown in oats and the oats 

 fed to stock. 



