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their own. I have four sons at home, two daughters married 

 and on farms, and one daughter left. Now, brother farmers, 



HERE IS THE SECRET: 



We all worked, used economy, and had patience. My 

 motto was — a thing well done was twice done. No hand-to- 

 mouth work with me. It was my aim to educate my boys for the 

 farm, and in so doing I gave them every encouragement when 

 quite young. I would give them a colt or a calf — and the increase. 

 I considered it one of the best investments a boy could have. It 

 teaches him how to make a dollar, and then how to save it. If 

 he earns it, he knows how the dollar was made and he has the 

 value in his mind. This is the plan I have pursued with my 

 boys in making my farm. I am proud that I can look about me 

 and see what I have done. All the crops on my farm for 

 years have paid large profits, and the farm is now in a higher 

 state of cultivation than when I first broke it up. 



AARON BUNN, 



CLAY CITY, CLAY COUNTY. 



Corn Culture — Shelter for Stock — Self-Feeder — Pro-fits Come in 

 Regularly — Hogs — Never Sells any Corn — Wheat Culture — 

 Tame Grasses and their Management. 



HOW SHALL ' I MANAGE IT TO PAY THE BEST ? 



I have a farm in Stanford Township, Clay County, Illinois, 

 containing five hundred and four acres. Now the question 

 comes, How will I manage it to make it pay the best ? The time 

 was when we raised lots of corn, a little wheat and a little hay ; 

 but times have changed — we must watch every thing. Now we 

 must have plenty of pasture, plenty of hay, all the wheat we 

 can put in right and take care of, and a little corn. Our land 

 is rolling prairie, clay soil. Then corn would grow with 

 but little attention, but now it takes a good farmer to raise 



