WELL UNDER-DRAINED. 39 



JAMES ANDERSON and HENRY K. SMITH, 



MAGNOLIA, PUTNAM COUNTY. 



Hog Farm and Hog House — Never Had Hog Cliolera — Why ? 

 Soap Suds are Freely Used in Swill — Clover and Oats both 

 Valuable and Superior Feed — Much Pleased with Arti- 

 chokes — Plan for a Hog House. 



JAMES Anderson's farm. 

 My farm is of eighty acres, situated in Magnolia, Putnam 

 County, and is essentially a hog farm. I turn off annually 

 about sixty head of fat hogs, averaging about 450 pounds. 

 This year they will average 447 pounds. I raise about all the 

 grain my hogs eat, on my own farm. My rye and oats are 

 generally sold. I have never had any hog cholera, and attrib- 

 ute my freedom from this disease to always putting the soap 

 suds with the slop on wash days. I always aim to have a 

 heavy, even lot of hogs, and always market them myself. 



THE FARM IS WELL UNDER- DRAINED. 



The peculiar feature of my farm as to many others in this 

 county is that it is well under-drained with 250 rods of tile 

 and open ditches. There is not a foot of land not in use. 

 I raise uniformly good crops, good hogs, and I am making 

 money. I came on the farm ten years ago, and found it in bad 

 condition, with no improvements worth mentioning, and a poor 

 crop the year previous. I paid cash down for the farm, except 

 $500 and interest which I have paid since. (Paid $37.50 per 

 acre, and consider it now worth $60 per acre.) I have paid 

 out in cash for horses, cattle, breeding hogs and buildings and 

 other improvements (such as fences, tiling, wagons and farming 

 implements), including the $500 on land, the amount of $4,900, 

 besides my living, hired help and taxes. This amount has 

 been made in ten years from the eighty acres, and I now con- 

 sider the farm is in better condition than ever before. The 



