PLAN OF FARM.' 



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all expenses, even at times when we had to battle against 

 drouth, chinch-bugs and grasshoppers. 



AXIOM. 



What I have done in ten short years, any young man 

 with a family, who is nothing more than a poor tenant in 

 some of the Northern or Eastern States, can come and do 

 likewise. 



KORTH 



SHADY SIDE. 



Explanation. — Scale, 80 rods to the iacli. 1 — Yard and dwelling. 

 7— Barn and barnyard. 2 — Garden, 3— Cultivated lands, mostly in wheat. 

 4— Pasture. 5 — Meadow. 6 8 — Lots for young stock, a — Three acres ceme- 

 tery, b — Two acres school-house, c c c — Artificial ponds. Public 



roads Hedges, Osage orange. " ° ° — Wells. <** — Orchards. 



^^,^,,^ Deep sloughs, from four f o eight rods wide, and about ten feet lower 

 than the level of the prairie. Remainder of the land level. 



