330 NEMAHA COUNTY, KANSAS. 



admit the hogs' snouts, without giving them the usual oppor- 

 tunity of sticking in their dirty feet. By this plan, the hogs 

 are furnished with water which is comparatively clean. When 

 mud collects in a trough of this kind, it can be cleaned very 

 easily by raising up the lid, something which will readily be 

 appreciated by those who have tried to clean out a hog trough. 

 Where a number of cleats have been nailed across the top they 

 answer the purpose of a lid. 



IT IS VERY ESSENTIAL 



that the fence around a feed lot be made very strong. From 

 experience I have found that a fence built five boards high, 

 with two or three strands of barbed wire stretched on the 

 opposite side of the posts, to which the boards are nailed, makes 

 a very safe fence, and is the most durable that I have tried. 



STOCK. 



I commenced the business of stock raising by purchasing 

 native cows. I have now a good thorough-bred bull, and 

 find that even the results of the first cross are very satis- 

 factory. To give an idea of the quality and value of such 

 calves when about eight or nine months old, I may say, that 

 my son, who is in partnersliip with me in the business of 

 stock raising, sold his share of the calves on a credit of nine 

 months, the steers averaging $16.50, and the heifers about $14. 

 I have tried almost every breed of hogs, and have arrived at 

 the conclusion that the Poland China is decidedly the hog 

 for the million. He is a hog of a remarkably good disposition, 

 a hearty eater, grows rapidly when well cared for, can be fattened 

 at any age, and is remarkably free from disease. Every farmer 

 who has to keep his hogs shut up, should have for them a good 

 clover pasture. Hogs can be raised much cheaper and easier in 

 a clover-field than in any other way ; besides they fatten much 

 quicker Avhen taken from the clover field and fed on corn. 



North Eastern Kansas holds out great inducements to 

 those who intend engaging in the raising and management 

 of cattle. This county, Nemaha, is largely prairie, the soil is 

 a black sandy loam, very productive and capable of raising all 



