144 LA SALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



hope I have not omitted any thing which may be essential to 

 the understanding of my phm. It is designed to be helpful lo 

 those farmers who have plenty of will^ but not plenty of 

 money. I have used these stables several years, and however 

 nice a barn I may ever be able to build, I do not expect to 

 have any which will be more economical of labor. 



AMOS M. EBERSOL, 



OTTAWA, LA SALLE COUNTY. 



Mixed Husbandry — Stock — Grain — Value of Tree Plant- 

 ing — Bees and Honey — Poultry — Tile Drainaye. 



FLORAL HOME 



is a moderate sized farm of two hundred acres, situate in La 

 Salle county, Section Thirty-one, Township Thirty-three, Range 

 Four. 



* In 1842, the present occupant, tlien a young man, with a 

 li^lit pocket, but a cheerful heart and a strong arm, and with 

 firm principles of right inculcated by a devoted mother, plowed 

 the first furrow and set out the first tree. The next year a 

 bird came to my nest, which in time brought me six birdlings. 

 They are all grown up, strong and health}-, never a death or a 

 very severe sickness having been known (o llie family. So it 

 may be said of tliis locality, it is decidedly a poor })lace for 

 doctors to locate; it must be recorded, however, that in the 

 early settlement of this county we suffered more or less with 

 fever and ague, when our medical men dosed out the calomel 

 and quinine by the spoonsful. 



Floral Home is finely watered, Covil creek, formed by a 

 thousand springs, running through it; hence the water is never 

 scanty or warm, but always fresh and inviting to man or 

 beast. Our wells, also, afford an abundant supply of good, 

 wholesome water. This farm is connected with a magnificent 

 grove which supplies myself and many others with an abundant 

 quantity of fence material and fuel. I was very saving of the 



