30 WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



ROBERT MILNE, 



LOCKPORT, WILL COUNTY. 



Durham Cattle — Poland China Hogs — Tile Drainage — A Bles- 

 sing to the tvhole State. 



KELVIN GROVE 



is situated in the town of Lockport, County of Will, and State 

 of Illinois, and consists of two hundred and forty acres. It is 

 divided into nine divisions, viz.: eighty acres adjoining the Town 

 of Lockport, which is partially covered with timber, and is in 

 permanent pasture, except what is occupied by the house, 

 barns, lawns, and orchard. Tliis pasture, about sixty -five acres, 

 is well seeded in blue grass and has been used for grazing since 

 1853, when it came into my possession. The rest of the farm, 

 one hundred and sixty acres, is divided into eight fields of 

 twenty acres each, one of which, in connection with the above 

 pasture lot, remains permanently in grass, making the pasture 

 on the farm one hundred and five acres. 



The seven fields of twenty acres each are cultivated every 

 year in the following manner : 80 acres in corn, 20 acres small 

 grain, and 40 acres meadow. 



FOLLOWING A ROTATION OF SEVEN "SHIFTS," 



when all the manure which has been made on the farm during 

 the year has been spread, one field of meadow is broken 

 up and planted with corn the following Spring. One field is 

 seeded down with grass with the small grain. I manure with 

 bone-dust one of the fields in corn, using 300 pounds per acre. 

 Tliis rotation, it will be seen, gives four continuous crops of 

 corn on each field, but is manured twice during that course, 

 the meadows only remaining in grass two years. This plan has 

 proven satisfactory, the farm continuing to imj^lrove in fertility. 

 The stock upon the farm consists of from forty to fifty 



