xii CONTENTS. 



I'AGH. 



A. J. STREETER, Neiv Windsor, Mercer C^««(y.— Stock Farm 

 of Twenty-Five Hundred Acres — My Three Rules — Valu- 

 able Herd of Short-Horns — Best Stock the Cheapest — 

 When to Sell Stock, _ - _ _ _ 269 



A. P. CHARLES, Knoxville, Knox County. — Convenient Barn, 273 



P. E. MICHAELES, Poplar Ridge, Jackson County. — Com- 

 mon Sense Applied to Farming — Wheat — Corn — Care 

 of Horses and Cattle — Good Living, - - - 276 



T. L. MILLER, Beecher, Will County. — Hereford Cattle, 



Cotswold Sheep, and Berkshire Hogs, - - - 278 



NELSON JONES, Towanda, McLean County.— Ca.i\.\Q, Sheep 

 and Hogs — Manner of Seeding for Pasture and Meadows 

 — A Stock Farm, _____ 282 



GEORGE A. TRUE, Waltham, LaSalle County. — Corn and 

 Manner of Culture — Never Lost a Crop in Twenty Years 

 How to Select Hogs — Their Feed and Care, - - 285 



R. S. HOOPER, Bristol, Kendall C^w^/y. — A Dairy Farm — 

 Makes Gilt Edge Butter from Graded Short-Horns — 

 Clover the Farmer's Friend, _ _ _ _ 290 



MILO BARNARD, Kankakee, Kankakee County. — Fruit and 

 Timber Growing — First Mistake of Planting Eastern Va- 

 rieties — Twenty Feet Too Close to Plant Apple Trees — 

 Cherry Trees Much Better Without Cultivation — Vineyard 

 of Contord Grapes — Strawberry Culture — Actual Meas- 

 urement of Growth of Timber ■ — Planting and Cultivation, 293 



KANSAS. 



R. J. WEMYSS, Abilene, Clay County. — Manager of the Kansas 

 Wheat Land Trust — Winter Wheat Farm on the Con- 

 tract System, ______ 302 



JOHN F. HILL, Os7vego, Labette County. — Model Home in 

 Ten Years — Yoke of Oxen the Foundation — First Wheat 

 Crop — Methods — Hard Labor — Perseverance and Econ- 

 omy, _-._-_- 303 



J. L. HODGES, Frankfort, Marshall County .—Yio\v to Plant 

 and Trim Osage Hedge — How to Arrange Prairie Farm 

 — Winter Wheat Culture, - - - - 310 



F. A. FENTON, Lndianola, Butler County.— Uovf tx) Keep Pas- 

 tures Fresh and Green — Butter — Rearing of Calves — Hogs 

 —Millet — Climate, _ . _ - - 314 



