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good, and when all our produce was sold, and all the expenses 

 paid, Ave found that we had a good profit left to invest in 

 something else. We concluded then that our farm of eighty 

 acres was too small, so wo bought and added forty acres more 

 adjoining. We also bought more farm utensils and machinery, 

 and some more comforts for the house. 



The next year we broke more prairie, put in a larger 

 acreage of wheat and other grains, so that when the next 

 year's settlement was made, we found that our profits had 

 increased in proportion also. More land, stock and machinery 

 were bought, and also, more improvements were added to the 

 house, the orchard, and the farm. The same plan was pursued 

 the next year, and the next, and so on, down to the present 

 time. Every year we would put oiit more crops, add more 

 acres to the homestead, make additional improvements over the 

 farm, and increase our comforts, till perhaps we may be now 

 allowed to claim that we have one of the best homes of the 

 country, and a 



^ MODEL FARM. 



Oar homestead consists of three hundred and forty-four 

 acres, ;ill in one body. Of this, two hundred and eighty are in 

 cultivation, and all is under a good hedge fence. I have a 

 good dwelling house, large barn, and all kinds of out-houses, 

 too numerous to mention. Also, an orchard of over one thou- 

 sand fruit trees — some bearing, and others just beginning to 

 bear — consisting of apples, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, 

 apricots, nectarines, quinces, grapes, and all kinds of small 

 fruit. Besides this, there are farm tools and machinery of 

 all kinds, with horses, cattle, mules, and hogs sufficient to carry 

 on a farm of this size. The house is well situated on a rise, 

 thirty rods from the road, with a beautiful yard and artificial 

 grove in front and rear, containing evergreens and forest trees. 

 Through the ynvd are walks and drives, and along their borders 

 are found shrubbery and flowers of all kinds growing. My 

 farm lies on each side of a public road. The dwelling house, 

 orchards, and garden are on the west side, and on the east are 



