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in very regularly, and have been over one thousand dollars a 

 year ever since I commenced to farm and raise stock. 



I KEEP PLENTY OF WORK HORSES. 



I do not raise them purposely to sell. I never aim to work a 

 horse to death. A horse can be worked on a farm until he is 

 8 or 9 years old; then I sell him. I keep from 80 to 125 head 

 of cattle all the time, and of all ages. I sell at from three and 

 a half to four years old. As soon as I sell I buy again, young 

 cattle, of course. I keep as many hogs as I have feed for, and 

 often 



I BUY LARGE QUANTITIES OF CORN 



and feed. I am always governed by the price of corn and 

 stock, as I never aim to do any thing that does not pay, and it 

 does not pay to buy corn to feed when corn is high and stock 

 is low. I always feed all the corn ; I never sell any. 



WHEAT. 



I have found by experience that one plowing is the best 

 for wheat, unless we have had a great deal of rain. Our land 

 must be well pulverized and packed, and drilled about the 

 middle of September. If we seed our land when it is too 

 loose it freezes out badly in the Winter. I have worked this 

 farm for fifteen years. I have had two partial failures of 

 wheat. One on account of the army worm in the Fall ; they 

 ate it off and it died. I drilled again in October ; the wheat 

 did not get much root, and it was killed in February and 

 March. The other failure was from an extremely dry Fall, when 

 we had the fly. Except these two crops, I never raised less than 

 fourteen bushels of wheat per acre, and from that to twenty- 

 five and a half bushels per acre. I plow for wheat the last of 

 June and through July. I plow in lands about seven steps 

 wide, and am careful to open all furrows so that the water will 

 not stand on the wheat. I plow five inches deep. Sow the 

 Mediterranean wheat, the best for our prairie land, as it is 

 the most hardy. 



