198 ADAMS COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



believe it is considered the best time for the developement of 

 the milking qualities, though it may prevent them from making 

 quite so much growth. 



The marketing of the milk must depend upon circum- 

 stances. If you are within a convenient distance from a city, 

 it may be shipped there, or taken to butter and cheese factories ; 

 or another plan, and which, I think, the best of all for one who 

 desires to operate in the most independent manner, is to make 

 it into butter and cheese at home, using the skim milk, butter- 

 milk and whey for feeding calves and hogs. 



A good course for a novice to follow in order to post 

 himself in the building, furnishing and managing of a private 

 creamery, is to visit the best ones in the country and study up 

 the matter in all its details. 



GEORGE W. DEAN, 



V ADAMS, ADAMS COUNTY. 



Depends U'pon Hogs and Corn for Profit — Constant Aim to 

 Keep the Land in a High State of Cultivation. 



I divide my farm, which contains over four hundred acres, 

 into corn, wheat, oats, meadow and pasture lands. My princi- 

 pal crop is corn, which, when raised and fed>out or cribbed, 

 costs, on an average, about twenty-seven cents per bushel. 



CORN. 

 My manner of raising corn is as follows : I plow the 

 ground as early in the Spring as the season and the condition 

 of the ground will permit. I never plow in the Fall for corn, 

 except when the ground is sod, stubble or very trashjs in 

 which case I plow deeper than in the Spring. If, when it is 

 time to plant the corn (which is as early as possible), the 

 ground has become hard by heavy • rains, I take a pair of 

 double corn plows and ridge it up in ridges four feet apart, 

 then cross these at right angles with a two horse corn planter, 

 and plant the corn in the ridges. The corn will come up 



