36 HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



N. C. GILBERT, 



GENESEO, HENRY COUNTY. 



No Field under Cultivation More than Five Years — Fifti/ Bush- 

 els of Corn and Two Tons of Hay per Acre — " Movable Self- 

 Feeder^^ for Stock — Merino Sheep — Tile Drainage. 



My farm consists of about two hundred and forty 

 acres. It is high, rolling prairie land, and each field is adapted 

 to the growing of grain, pasturage and meadow. Corn and 

 grass are the principal products raised, and are mostly con- 

 verted into pork, beef, mutton and wool on the farm. 



Whenever a field is sown with small grain, it is also sown 

 with clover and timothy seed. It is intended not to keep a 

 field under the plow more than five years before seeding. All 

 fine manure made on the farm, is scattered on meadows and 

 pastures, -and the coarser portion is put on fields intended for 

 corn. By this method over fifty bushels of corn per acre is 

 raised, and not less than two tons per acre of hay. 



NORMAN HORSES 



are taking the lead for general farm use, in this section. 



GRADE SHORT HORN CATTLE 



are considered best for beef and milk. Many farmers are of 

 opinion that steers fed with corn while running on past- 

 ure are much more profitable than those fed through the 

 long cold months of Winter and Spring. For convenience in 

 feeding in the field, 



A MOVABLE " SELF FEEDER " 



is constructed, that will hold enough shelled corn to supply a 

 car load of steers for a month, thus obviating the necessity of 

 hitching up a team for feeding them daily, or of carrying corn 



