PLAN FOR CORN CRIB. 

 Plan for Corn Crib, 26 feet by 40, 10 foot posts: 



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A — Drive way and wagon shed, 10 feet wide. B B — Cribs, 8 feet wide. 

 A tight floor over drive way, forming store room for light farm implements, 

 seed corn, etc. Shingle roof. 



J. C. WARE, 



MAHOMET, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. 



Pasture and Clover — Wheat — Oats — Corn — Crops More 

 Than Doubled from Tile Drainage — Hogs and Their Man- 

 agement. 



My farm contains three hundred and twenty acres of roll- 

 ing land, situated on the borders of the Sangamon timber, one- 

 half mile northwest of the town of Mahomet. Forty acres of 

 the farm are covered with a very fine growth of young timber, 

 the remainder is devoted to the production of wlieat, corn, oats, 

 meadow and pasture. The crops are all fed on the farm to liogs, 

 sheep and horses, in the belief that the raising of grain for mar- 

 ket as a specialty is unworthy of the age in which we live ; 

 for it costs to transport one dollar's worth of grain to market 

 ten times as much as it does the same value of animal production. 

 This is not only a question of markets and present profits, but it 

 is also a matter which bears particularly upon the fertility, 

 future value, and permanent productions of the farm. While 

 our soil is extremely, fertile it is an error, fatal to a common 



