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I redeem fields that are becoming impoverished by seeding- 

 to clover. When the clover has fully matured I use the roll- 

 ing cutter and plow in the field, turning the whole crop under, 

 then seed to wheat, always with good results. After the 

 wheat comes off and another crop of clover comes on, it is 

 again plowed under and the land sown in wheat. By seeding 

 for three consecutive years, the land is as good as before it was 

 broken. 



A TRUCK PATCH. 



I have an apple orchard of 800 trees, all well selected, a 

 large majority of which are Summer fruits, and from which I 

 receive quite a good income. A part of the apples are used 

 for making cider, and a portion stowed in the cellar every year 

 for home consumption. The expenses of the whole farm are 

 cleared every year on what, in " Egypt," is called a " truck 

 patch," which consists of a few acres cultivated in sweet pota- 

 toes, Irish potatoes, and the Multiplier onion. 



My house is a wooden structure, 18xCG feet, built on the 

 L style, situated on a beautiful table-land near the forest, 

 and is surrounded by a beautiful grove of deciduous and ever- 

 green trees, making it a most desirable home. My whole farm 

 is ridge-land ; not an acre of bottom on it. The growth of 

 timber is white oak, hickory, yellow poplar, walnut, and gray 

 ash. The undergrowth is principally pawpaw, red-bud, and 

 dog-wood, all indicating the best of soil. 



" Egypt's " resources. 



Twenty-five years ago I began on a forty-acre lot in the 

 woods of this place. There was a little log cabin on it then, 

 which I moved into, and went to work clearing off the heavy 

 timber preparatory to making a support for myself and wife. 

 By perseverance and good management I have been enabled to 

 buy an adjoining forty-acre lot, and so kept on in the good 

 work of buying forty-acre lots until my farm now contains 300 

 acres, which is seven and a half times what it was when I com- 

 menced. At that time I owned no other land than the 

 forty acres, and it unimproved, had one horse and a plow, a 



