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J. H. OAKWOOD, 



CATLm, VERMILLION COUNTY. 



Handles Thorough Bred Horses^ Short Horns^ High Grades 

 Berkshire Hogs and Cotswold Sheep — No Dogs — The Orchard 

 a Sacred Spot — Pole Brains. 



My farm contains one hundred and thirty-two acres, 

 eighty acres prairie, twenty acres cleared, thirty-two acres 

 seeded to blue grass. A large stream and two smaller 

 ones furnish unfailing supplies of running water. The 

 drainage consists of a half mile of open ditch, three feet 

 deep and five feet wide at the top, and an equal amount 

 of timbered drain the same depth. These drains make 

 all the land sufficiently dry for cultivation, except in excessive- 

 ly wet seasons. A sufficient amount of tile and mole draining 

 will be put in at an early day to make the drainage complete. 



The farm is divided into nine fields ; two containing 

 eighteen acres each, one sixteen acres, one fourteen acres, two 

 eight acres each, and one five acres. The orchard, barn lots 

 and door yard five acres. 



THE FARM IS FENCED AND SUBDIVIDED 



with one and a half miles of osage orange hedge, trimmed 

 once or twice each year, and the balance "Virginia rail fence " 

 — not the most attractive fence to the eye, but having a surplus 

 of timber, the cheapest for me to build, and always good 

 when well made. The farm is so subdivided that all the 

 fields but one have running water, and all but two never failing 

 water. 



A fish pond has been recently made by throwing a dam 

 across a ravine near its head, one hundred and fifty feet long 

 by nearly forty feet wide. It is situated one hundred and fifty 



