312 MARSHALL COUNTY, KANSAS. 



red clover. It has been seeded five years and I never saw 

 clover do better any where. I think if we put clover on our 

 land we can not kill it by any fair means. My house is a one 

 and a half story frame, upright 14x28, standing with the end 

 to the road, and has south front and porch fronting the flower 

 gardens. It has a wing 20x22 on the north side, with an east 

 front and porch fronting the road, with a cistern under this 

 porch, that holds two hundred barrels, and a pump standing in 

 the porch ; also a west kitchen front leading to the well and 

 barn. The house stands about the center of the plot, which is 

 planted with all kinds of trees — maples, black walnut, ever- 

 greens, on the east, peaches on the west, plums, cherries, pears, 

 on the south. On the north is a driveway between the veget- 

 able garden and dooryard leading to the granar}^, barnyards 

 and orchard. A plot of one-quarter of an acre on the south 

 of dooryard, contains flowers, strawberries, raspberries, black- 

 berries, grapes, quinces, crab apples, peaches, and other fruits. 

 I have a plot of one-quarter of an acre on north of driveway, 

 lying between the driveway and orchard for a garden, with 

 fruit trees next the road. West of the vegetable garden is a 

 lawn of three-fourths of an acre, and south of lawn is one- 

 fourth of an acre with granary in the center, 26x44, making 

 granary, carriage-house and tool-house, leaving a driveway clear 

 around it, leading to both yards and to the barn also, through 

 the lawn to the orchard. The barn is 40x50, facing north and 

 south, between the two yards. This is designed for a general 

 farm and grain barn, with sixteen feet in width taken off the 

 east end fronting the granary lot for horse stables, with a hay-loft 

 over the horses. My north barnyard is one and a quarter acres 

 and the soutli one is two and a half acres, with posts set seven 

 feet apart and three boards at the bottom ; then comes a gal- 

 vanized barb wire, next a plain barb wire. The same fence 

 is around the hog lot except the roadside, which is hedge, and 

 which holds pigs or any other stock. 



I have given a fair description of my small yards. I 

 will describe my fields and mode of cultivation. I Summer 

 fallowed my first field last Summer and shall sow the same to 



