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side of the slough are blackberries — Kittatinny and Snyder ; 

 "b" is a lane running through east half of farm ; "c" and "d" are 

 also lanes ; "e" is a house lot planted with evergreen and other 

 trees ; "f " is a garden with evergreen grove on west; "g" is an 

 orchard with over 300 trees, most of them in bearing ; "h" is 

 the barn, and "i i i" yards for cattle, sheep and hogs ; "k" is a 

 trough supplied from the spring in "B," which is tiled from 



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"x" and "o" to "k." There are also troughs in lots"iii." Tile 

 is also laid in "C" and "D" through a large slough, making 

 every foot of land tillable. I make it a rule to seed down 

 twenty acres and break up twenty acres every year. In this 

 way my land is kept in good condition. With the exception of 

 from fifteen to twenty acres of oats each year, and twenty acres 

 of meadow, I raise corn and convert it into beef, pork and 



