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house, good milk house with cellar underneath the same, 

 and convenient out-buildings ; good barn fiftj-six by sixty- 

 four feet, well arranged for stock, with cistern, nine by 

 twenty-two feet deep, which affords ample stock water; also, 

 good wagon, carriage and implement shed, twenty-four by 

 twenty-five feet ; also, good frame school-house near center of 

 farm, together with three other comfortable dwelling houses for 

 tenants, and good stabling for same. The wheat crop out on 

 farm, usually some two hundred acres, generally does well. Corn 

 about one hundred acres, averages a fair crop. One hundred and 

 thirty-five acres in grass, all well watered for stock by good 

 ponds and wells, making splendid pastures. It is also a good 

 fruit farm, being bounded on the west by a fine skirt of timber, 

 and also on the north sufficiently to protect the fruit trees, 

 which never fail in apples, cherries and grapes. I find it a good 

 place for bees, as it is near the timber where they get the early 

 bloom off the maple tree and other early flowering timbers. 



MY FEED LOTS 



are arranged near my barn, in the timber, where they 

 are high and dry. The timber protects the stock from 

 the winter storms, and with good racks it is no hard task 

 to feed my cattle, which do much better than those out in 

 the open prairie, where they have no shelter from wind, snow 

 and rains. My feed lots and timber pastures contain one 

 hundred and twenty acres. Adjoining my prairie land there is 

 a small creek running through the farm, which affords stock 

 water the year round, unless it is uncommonly dry. Growth of 

 timber — oak, hickory, ash, mulberry, cottonwood, sugar, linn, 

 walnut and elm, some wild cherry and sassafras, and wild 

 locust ; timber land high and dry, no bottom of a low wet nature 

 on the stream in this part of its run. 



LOCATION. 



I am located in a good healthy part of the country and 

 about four miles north-east of Georgetown, a good and thriv- 

 ing country village. I try to have good and sufficient teams, 

 good farming implements, such as plows, harrows and good 



