290 KENDALL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



drink. This is their only feed, except that they have the run 

 of the pasture in the Summer. 



I ought, perhaps, to add that, notwithstanding all my care 

 and sanitary precautions, I have had a touch of the so-called 

 hog cholera, losing six or eight. 



R. S. HOOPER, 



BRISTOL, KENDALL COUNTY. 



A Dairy Farm — Makes Crilt Edge Butter From Graded 

 Short Horns — Clover The Farmers'' Friend. 



WOOD LAWN FARM 



is situated fifty miles southwest from Chicago, and eight miles 

 in the same direction from Aurora. It contains two hundred 

 and sixty acres, and lies in Kendall county, half a mile from 

 Bristol. 



* It lies in a portion of the Fox river valley, known in the 

 early history of the country as '' the garden of the West,'' 

 which richly merited the title. When the eye of the pioneer 

 settler fell upon the valley, it was one unbroken surface of 

 prairie, interspersed with wild flowers, and outlined by the 

 timber of the Fox river on one side and Blackberry creek on 

 the other. The scene must have been truly magnificent. The 

 improvements that have since been made have not detracted 

 in the least from its beauty, but have rather enhanced it. 



This delightful portion of the valley of the Fox, is about 

 six miles in length, and from one to three in breadth, and about 

 in the center of the tract lies Wood Lawn. 



ADVANTAGES AND BUILDINGS. 



The farm possesses every natural advantage, being well 

 watered, the Fox and Blackberry forming two of its boundary 

 lines, while crystal springs, that never freeze or go dry, run 

 through portions devoted to pasture. The farm is level and 

 perfectly dry, the soil being composed of a rich loam under- 

 laid with gravel and sand. Water is obtained any where by 



