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grasses come, the stock is taken to " Woodlawn Farm," sixty 

 miles west, in Nemaha county, where they stay and graze upon 

 the Range, returning the next Fall. " Woodlawn" embraces 

 six hundred and forty acres of good corn and hay land, has 

 good timber and water, a large stock barn, four dwelling 

 houses, and a mill run by a power Eclipse wind-engine to grind 

 meal and feed. Plenty of hogs, cattle, colts, and horses are 

 on the farm, all under the direct care and management of Mr. 

 Tom Cardiff, a wide awake fellow, who stands in this couixtry 

 with scarcely a peer. 



Northern Kansas is unsurpassed in agricultural wealth. 

 Land is still very cheap, and fertile, and well adapted to the 

 production of all kinds of grain and grasses. Stock raising is 

 especially profitable, and there is a steady market at the far- 

 mer's door for all kinds of animals at good prices. If the 

 thousands in the crowded cities of the East, who are barely 

 subsisting, would avail themselves of this great heritage, what 

 untold blessings would be bequeathed to their posterity. 



ADAM HEATER, 



HIGHLAND, DONIPHAN COUNTY. 



What Has Been Accomplished in Two Years — The Buildings — 

 The Fences — The Groves — Forty-Five Bushels of Win- 

 ter Wheat Crop to the Acre — Each Day Its Own Task. 



Without claiming the title of a Model Farmer, I am quite 

 willing to contribute to your book, giving some of the 

 methods by which I have achieved success upon the prairies of 

 Kansas. In the Summer of 1871, I purchased a quarter section 

 of land in Doniphan Co., Kan., on which there was a small 

 house, the land being partly in cultivation. I left the farm in 

 the hands of a tenant until the Spring of 1878, to work it as 

 he saw fit, for a portion of the crop. In the meanwhile I paid 

 no attention to it further than to receive, at the proper seasons, 

 the rent. I mention these facts solely to show that, when I 



