CONTENTS. 



ILLINOIS. 



CHARLES M. CULBERTSON, Newman, Douglass County.— 

 Stock Farm — Buildings — Fields — Hereford Cattle — 

 How and When to Breed — Rearing of Calves and Bulls — 

 Portable Feed Racks for Cattle, - - - - 5 



HENRY CHAPMAN, Sugar Grove, Kane Coufity.—'Lz.xid^etds 

 Rest — Clover Head and Shoulders Above All Other Ferti- 

 lizers — Never Cut Twice in the Same Year — Hogs, Their 

 Feed and Management — Short- Horns, Devons, Herefords 

 — Sheep — Dairy, - - - - - i r 



E. J. JEFFRESS, Marine, Madison County. — Breed Nothing 

 but the Very Best Stock Horses and Sheep — Pastures and 

 Hay — Poultry — Self Feeding Rack — Hay Shed — Hennery, 19 



ELI EDDEMAN, Dongola, Union County. — Successful Winter 

 Wheat Farming in " Egypt " — A Country Well Adapted for 

 Horticulture, -__.__ 24 



DAVID C. GRAHAM, Cameron, Warren County. — Thirty-six 

 Gates on the Farm None too Many — Clover and Timothy 

 the Best Adapted to our Prairies — Best Time to Cut — 

 Treatment of Pasture and Meadow Land, - - 27 



ROBERT MILNE, Lockport, Will County .—V>Mx\iz.m Cattle- 

 Poland China Hogs — Tile Drainage — Blessing to the 

 whole State, -.-__. 30 



GEORGE CAREY, Rochelle, Ogle County. — Sheep Farm — 

 How to Make a Flock of Good Sheep— High Grade Merino 

 Ewes — Full Blooded Long Wool Rams the Best Sheep for 

 Mutton and Wool — Plan for Feeding Rack, - - 33 



N. C. GILBERT, Geneseo, Henry County. — No Field under 

 Cultivation More than Five Years — Fifty Bushels of Corn 

 and Two Tons of Hay per Acre — Movable Self-Feeder 

 for Stock — Merino Sheep — Tile Drainage, - - 3^ 



