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good setters, care well for the young chickens, and, better than 

 all else, can take care of themselves after three or four Aveeks 



old. 



TURKEYS. 



I raise only for our own use. Turkeys and flowers, in 

 Spring and early Summer, do not agree, and I like the flowers. 

 I buy a setting or two of eggs in Spring, raise as many as 

 I can and dispose of all of them during the Winter. 



MY LAND 



is upland prairie, well drained naturally, and not much 

 troubled with long rains. To make it still better we are pur- 

 suing a system of 



DRAINAGE. 



I begin with the hollows for main drains and put in later- 

 als as means and time will allow. 



FENCES AND BUILDINGS. 



My farm is principally surrounded by Osage hedge in good 

 order. There is some good wire and paling, and some poor 

 fences, and some board fence and common paling fence for 

 divisions. The poor fences will be made better. I have a 

 good farm house ; a barn 60x70 feet, in which, in the Winter, 

 I keep from fifteen to twenty horses and cattle, an average of 

 eighty sheep, three wagons and some other farm implements, 

 five hundred bushels of grain, one thousand bushels of corn 

 and about twenty tons of hay. The hay is elevated and car- 

 ried about the barn so far as practicable by horse power. I 

 have a farm machinery building, in which is stored all the ma- 

 chinery ('$700 worth) not in use, for the Winter, and another 

 building for workshop, buggies, and some other common farm 

 implements, all insured in sound Insurance Companies. I have 

 a small grove of Osage Orange for timber purposes, and wish 

 it had been much larger at the first setting of trees on the 

 farm. Around the house there are some dozen varieties of 

 evergreens, some thirty-five feet high or more, besides decidu- 

 ous trees, among which are Bearing Pecan, White and Black 



