92 JASPER COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



THE TREATjVCENT OF GRASS AND PASTURE LANDS 

 should be our chief study, as therein are the greatest profits 

 for the least investment. It is strange to think that grass 

 will grow under water, and especially tame grass. We 

 mostly seed our wheat land with grass, sown in February 

 on the wheat. It does well, and is a great saving of time and 

 labor. If there is any crop I pay particular attention to it is 

 wheat, therefore this land is in good chape for grass. I mow the 

 grass land four years, then pasture three, and then break the 

 sod. I have two reasons for this : First, it keeps up a rotation 

 of crops ; second, the ground has become more or less foul 

 by this time, and has run out. The leading grass of this coun- 

 try is red top. We sow a great deal of timothy and some 

 clover, but they will not hold a sod like the red top. We 

 sometimes cut two and a half or three tons to the acre. Red 

 top makes more pasture than either clover or timothy. 



A. G. CALDWELL, 



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ISLAND GROVE, JASPER COUNTY. 



A Stock Farm — Most Successful With Grade Cattle — Corn — 

 Wheat — Fruit — Fish — Thorough Systeviatic Under Drainage 

 only Needed for the Full Development of Jasper. 



Island Grove, Jasper County, is situated 15 miles north- 

 west of the county seat, Newton. My farm proper contains 

 600 acres, which I use mostly as a stock farm. I have other 

 adjacent farms where I raise most of my cereals. My farm 

 proper I have mostly in grasses, viz.: clover, timothy and 

 red top. 



CATTLE. 



I have about 100 stockers on my farm, and about the 

 same number that lam feeding for the market. 



My mode of handling these stockers Avould suggest itself 

 to any feeder who proposes to feed for profit. I keep my ani- 

 mals constantly in a growing condition, bv having a full diet 



