102 CARROLL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



walls are seemingly as good to-day as they were the year 

 they were built. 



FARMING IMPLEMENTS. 



Since 1860, I have used a Double-Michigan and sub-soil 

 plow for sod ; for many years a steel beam stiring plow ; 

 and for the past two years a three-horse sulky plow. I use a 

 section Scotch harrow, and an Iowa seeder and cultivator for 

 sowing grain. In 1879 I went back to the primitive way 

 of sowing wheat in standing corn by hand, putting it in with 

 a one-horse Moline cultivator. I plant corn with a Key- 

 stone, having Barnes' check-rower attachment. Cultivate corn 

 with a two-horse walking plow. For cutting grain I have used 

 one of Atkins' self-raking reapers for twenty-five years, and 

 it is still in working order. I use a McCormick self-binder. 

 For cutting grass I have used the Hubbard mower for sixteen 

 years ; it still does good work. In stacking hay I use a derrick 

 and a Palmer hay fork. For the past seventeen years I have 

 done».my threshing with Emery's two-horse thresher and 

 cleaner, run with tread-power. I also use that power to grind 

 feed and saw wood. 



I estimate the cost of raising grain, delivered in the crib 

 and bin, at $1 per acre, exclusive of the use of the land. I 

 have raised mostly corn and oats for several years, and sell 

 about one-third of the crop. Feed the rest to horses, cows, 

 hogs and sheep ; mostly to sheep. The raising of winter 

 wheat here for the past five years has been a grand success, 

 variety, Odessa. It is a spring wheat also. The spring-sown 

 is considered best to sow in the Fall, and vice versa. Our mil- 

 lers are in love with it. 



OF HORSES 



I usually keep from five to seven. My present stock is the 

 progeny of a half Morgan mare that I bought fifteen years 

 ago. She is now twenty-two years old, and neither she nor 

 her descendants have ever been sick a day, except a slight at- 

 tack of the epizootic, which swept over the country a few years 



