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clover. I designate the fields by numbers, as will be seen by 

 the diagram. 



ROTATION OP CROPS. 



Number one is my oldest field. I Summer fallowed that 

 in the Summer and sowed it to Fall wheat, and will seed it to 

 clover in the Spring. The following season I will mow in 

 June for hay, and then cut again in the Fall for seed, and 

 pasture the next season. The following season I will plow 

 the clover sod for corn, and the next plow the corn stubble for 

 oats and barley in the Spring, or make it fallow again for 

 wheat. My plan is to have a rotation of crops. My main crop 

 is Fall wheat ; I intend to have two of these forties in 

 Fall wheat every year, one in corn, two in clover, or clover^ 

 oats and barley, and my small fifteen acre I will use as occa- 

 sion requires. I shall have to vary some, possibly, but will 

 always keep two forty acre lots in Fall wheat, and one in corn. 



STOCK. 



I commenced the improvement of this farm as follows : I 

 built the house, and then I had the county surveyor lay it out 

 correctly as it is seen on the plot. Next I broke the bounds 

 for all the hedges, and then went to work and made the farm 

 as fast as I could. I keep about two hundred sheep, twenty 

 head of cattle, fifty hogs, and ten to fifteen horses, mules, and 

 colts. I have on the farm two good three-horse teams, and 

 two good two-horse teams, and two or four colts growing all 

 the time to keep these teams good. My farm has no stone or 

 obstructions of any kind. I have raised over 8,000 bushels of 

 Fall wheat since I commenced. 



I was born in New York State, near the city of Rochester, 

 Monroe county, in 1820, and lived there and in Genessee county 

 until I came to Kansas seven years ago. I think I know what 

 good farming is, and hope to live to see this State put under 

 good cultivatioji, and then I believe we will have the best State 

 in the Union. 



