262 JO DAVIESS COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



clover and change often. I use plows, cultivators, and reapers, 

 manufactured at Rock ford, Illinois. 



I breed the short-horned Durham and Hereford cattle, 

 believing them to be the best breeds for beef. There has been 

 but little interest taken in raising cattle for milk. This is com- 

 paratively a new place, but we have some fine orchards just 

 beginning to bear, and think it is a successful climate for 

 apples, cherries, and the small fruits. 



E. M. BOUTON, 



GALENA, JO DAVIESS COUNTS'. 



Stock Farm — Best Feed for Fattening Cattle — Cost of Raising 

 a Three-Year- Old Steer — Care of Breeding Cows — Treat- 

 ment of Meadoivs — Hay Sweep — Variety of Food Recom- 

 mended for Hogs. 



^ My farm, containing two hundred and seven acres, is 

 sj.tuated two and one-half miles east of Galena. The soil is 

 a light, porous clay, so porous that it needs no draining, and 

 is well adapted to the growing of corn, oats, barley, wheat, rye, 

 and other crops. It can not be beat for pastures and meadows. 

 Blue grass grows perfectly natural, ousting every thing of the 

 grass kind that comes in its way, not excepting timotliy and 

 clover. It makes the very best of pasture for both Summer 

 and Winter. My land is rather rolling, and was inclined to 

 wash when plowed for several years in succession. I thus 

 became disgusted twenty years ago with having my good soil 

 transported by every passing shower into the Galena river, and 

 resolved to make it exclusively a stock farm, to raise horses, 

 cattle, sheep and hogs. I set out with the determination to 

 put my stock in such condition that when tliey were taken to 

 the Chicago market, they would attract buyers. In order to 

 fatten stock, it would be necessary to have the greater part of 

 the farm in meadow and pasture, plowing only enough to 

 furnish grain for the stock. By so doing, it would enable me 



