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very beneficial to lung complaints. We have few fogs or rainy 

 days ; showers come and go, and the sun is soon out once more. 

 Land is generally good, and the bottoms are hard to beat for 

 fertility. Tliere is very little need of draining. 



This is an excellent country for an industrious man to 

 come to. If he has a little means he can secure a home for 

 himself and family cheaply. If he has no means lie can rent 

 good land by giving one-third of the corn in crib, and one-third 

 small grain in the bushel. It is no place for a lazy man ; in 

 fact, there are too many of that kind here now. And the man 

 who is well fixed in the East had better stay there and not 

 change. 



C. B. SPAULDING, 



HILLSDALE, MIAMI COUNTY. 



The Culture of Corn and Winter Wheat — G-raded Durhams — 

 The Poland China and Berkshire Cross Recommended — Best 

 Time to Breed Sows and What to Feed — Meadows — Dairy 

 — Poultry — Fruit. 



I emigrated to Kansas in 1859, at a time when the country 

 was sparsely settled, and located in 1862, on eighty acres of land 

 in Miami county, which have ever since been my home. The 

 improvement of my land, and how I could best accomplish the 

 desired results with my limited means, have occupied a large 

 degree of my attention. As I am not of a very '• shifty " turn of 

 mind, that is, not given to much traffic, like money in a new 

 country, my experience and success have been through a steady 

 and unrelenting tilling of the soil. My farming operations have 

 been a mixed husbandry, which I believe to be the best course 

 for a small farmer to pursue (a course, too, that larger ones 

 would do well to follow). Every farmer should make his farm 

 self-sustaining, compelling it to produce as nearly as possible 

 all that is needed for home consumption. 



MACHINERY. 



I have invested in machinery and implements that would 



