44 PUI.ASKI COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



The hog pens are floored and have low roofs. The drove is 

 nearly all a cross between the Berkshire and Poland China, all 

 of well formed bodies. 



WHEAT. 



Under a large shed is stored away agricultural tools unfit 

 for further use, plows and machinery of all kinds. All my im- 

 plements and machinery are cleaned and painted every Fall 

 and Winter. The wheat granary is a small house by the side 

 of* the road, holding about 750 bushels of wheat. I sowed in 

 the Fall of 1879, 335 acres of the Fultz, Slosson, Tennessee 

 Red, Red Sea, and Red May varieties. My present crop was 

 well taken care of, and sold soon after threshing at a good 

 price, having gathered 3,600 bushels from 2G0 acres, an aver- 

 age of fourteen bushels to the acre. I do my own threshing, 

 and thresh for others also, having threshed 24,000 bushels of 

 wheat for my neighbors, together with large crops of oats. 



LABOR. 



During the Summer the working stock is fed on corn, oats, 

 and hay. My ground is always plowed deep, harrowed well 

 with common and a disk harrow, and great care is taken how 

 the wheat is sown with the drill. I am in the field all the time 

 and see that things are done right. During seeding time I em- 

 ploy from six to ten men, but five are kept the entire year. 

 One man has the charge of the barn, it being his duty to feed all 

 the stock, see that all are properly bedded and curried, harness 

 the working animals and see that the harness does not bruise 

 or injure them. But four horses are kept, including a buggy 

 horse. The fields of wheat are pastured with sheep all Winter. 

 The sheep are driven to the house every night and fed clover- 

 hay, and kept from the wet weather. 



