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C. B. SPAULDING, Hillsdale, Miami Cozmty. — ThQ Culture of 

 Corn and Winter Wheat — Graded Durhams — The Poland- 

 China and Berkshire Cross Recommended — Best Time to 

 Breed Sows and What to Feed — Meadows — Dairy — Poultry 

 — Fruit, - - - - - - -317 



ALBERT MOLER, Mineral Point, Anderson County. — Stock 

 Farm — Three Hundred Acres in Corn — High Grade Cattle 

 the Most Profitable — Good Shelter but Not Confinement 

 Recommended — Kentucky Blue Grass a Success, - 324 



GEORGE HAY, Seneca, Ne^naha County. — Stock Farm Made 

 in Five Years — Arrangement of Yards and Sheds, Feed 

 Racks and Troughs — Poland China Hogs — Culture of Corn 

 and Winter Wheat — Graded Durhams — Poland China 

 and Berkshire Recommended — Treatment of Meadows — 

 Dairy — Poultry — Fruit, - - •- - -327 



ANSON S. COOK, Beloit, Mitchell County .—Wx-y^^A Husbandry 

 — Cost Per Acre of Growing Winter Wheat — Oats — Corn 

 and Fruit — Management and Breeding of Hogs and Farm 

 Horses — It Pays to Push All Young Stock as Fast as Good 

 Food and Good Care Will Do It, - - - ZZ"^ 



W. S. GILE, Venango, Ellsworth County. — Tree Culture as a 

 Protection to Crops — Winter Wheat and Corn — The Latter 

 the Best Crop — Sheep Interest Increasing — Climate, - 337 



WILLIAM L. CHALLIS, Atchison, Atchison Comity. — Personal 

 Reminiscences — No Grain Raised on the Farm — Clover the 

 Principal Grass — Sheep Corrals — Cattle Barns — Piggery — 

 Infirmary — Slaughter House — Advantages of Northern 

 Kansas for Stock Raising, - - - - 340 



ADAM HEATER, Highland, Doniphan County. —W\\a.t Has 

 Been Accomplished in Two Years — Buildings — Fences — 

 Groves — Forty-five Bushels of Winter Wheat to the Acre 

 — Each Day Has Its Own Work, _ _ _ 348 



JOHN HODGINS, Centralia, Nemaha County.— Took Horace 

 Greeley's Advice — Adventure with the Indians — Seven 

 Thousand Trees Make a Beautiful Park and Grove — 

 Method of Tree Culture — Corn the Best Crop — Raising 

 Fowls Profitable, - - - - - 354 



R. L. GILBERT, Chester, Jefferson County. — Delaware Re- 

 serve — Stock — Care and Feed of Sheep — Fruits, - 3159 



EZRA CRANE, Stafford, Stafford C^//«A'. — Feeding Corn — 



Clod Crusher — Plans — Potatoes — Wheat — Hogs, - 363 



