314 BUTLER COUNTY, KANSAS. 



F. A. FENTON, 



INDIA^'OLA, BUTLER COUNTY. 



A Dairy Farm — How to Keep Pastures Fresh and Green — Butter 

 — Rearing of Calves — Hogs — Millet — (Uimate. 



My farm consists of 205 acres of bottom and upland prairie. 

 One hundred and twenty acres of this are under cultivation, the 

 remainder is in prairie pastures. The farm implements used are 

 John Deere sulky plow, Gilpin, (very good plow, by the way,) 

 also a very good harrow (no name). This last implement is so 

 constructed that you hitch to one end and the teeth will be 

 straight ; by changing and hitching to the other end the teeth 

 slant, thus making an excellent harrow for harrowing corn 

 while young. I use the Peru City corn cultivators, and they 

 haye proved the best with us. Keystone corn planters give 

 the best satisfaction here. I can claim no precedence in rais- 

 ing corn or oats, although they have been raised at an average 

 cost in crib and granary of fifteen cents per bushel for corn, 

 and eighteen cents per bushel for oats. All grain produced and 

 much more bought, is fed to milch cows and made into butter. 

 I keep twenty-three cows, mostly grade Durhams, and a few 

 grade Devons. Both I find very good for dairy purposes, and 

 they also make good beef. 



PASTURE. 



Prairie pasture in Kansas makes good beef for market, and 

 cows yield an abundance of most excellent milk. The pasture 

 may be kept up until late in the season by burning off a fresh 

 piece of ground (prairie sod) every few weeks during the 

 Summer. Finally, when prairie pasture fails, you must be pre- 

 pared with some green crop to take the place of green grass. 

 Corn sown broadcast, or, better, drilled, from about the middle 

 to the last of June, makes an excellent crop for this purpose, 



