66 GREENE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



Of bees, fruit, and vegetables, we raise onl}^ enough for 

 home use and some to give away. 



FENCES AND FIELDS. 



Fences are of rail, board, and hedge. The latter I i:)refer, 

 trimming twice a year. Believe it is better for fencing, and 

 know it is much cheaper. Fields are from forty to eighty acres 

 in size. The whole field must be planted to one thing, so that 

 after it is harvested the stock can be turned in to glean. 



Ornamental trees and flowers are neglected for an im- 

 aginary want of time, but I do not think a farm decent with- 

 out them, much less a model. 



E. A. GILLER, 



WHITEHALL, GREENE COUNTY. 



Plowing '■'' Saw^^ Made a Pond of It — Plotting " (reg" and 

 T'de Draining Save made it one of the Most Profitable 

 Farms in the State. — How to Tile a Farm. 



The farm I own and am living on, is situated in Greene 

 County, Illinois, and consists of five hundred acres, three hun- 

 dred prairie and two hundred originally timber, one hundred and 

 forty of the timber being now cleared and in cultivation. The 

 prairie and timber joining the prairie land is level, the timber 

 land more rolling. The prairie is a black, rich loam, the soil l)e- 

 ing from one to three feet in depth, with an excellent, porous 

 sub-soil. Thirty years ago, when I first bought the farm, it was 

 considered too flat and wet to be very productive, and had 

 been rented out for years. The cockleburs and Jamestown 

 weeds had taken possession of the plow land. The sumachs, 

 briars and thistles, for two or three rods, had captured the 

 fence corners, and the horse weeds, alders and other noxious 

 weeds, nearly half the meadow land. In one part of the 

 farm, near two acres in one patch had been given up entirely, 

 and cottonwoods eight inches in diameter were actually grow- 



