360 DONIPHAN COUNTY, KANSAS. 



other field, containing eight acres. This was seeded in timothy 

 in the Fall of 1878, at the time of sowing wheat, and again with 

 clover in Marcli, 1879, on the same conditions as the other 

 tract referred to above. In the sowing season of 1878, I only- 

 sowed forty-seven and a quarter acres of Winter wheat myself, 

 on the place. This included the eight-acre lot above spoken 

 of, and thirty-nine acres and the fraction of the large lot im- 

 mediately south of and adjoining it. All of the forty-seven 

 and a quarter acres had been in corn the previous year. In the 

 Summer of 1878, I Summer-fallowed it, harrowed and rolled it, 

 and left it until about the 12th or 13th day of September, 

 when I drilled it in wheat at the rate of one bushel and one 

 peck to the acre. I cut it the two last days in June, and the 

 first and second days of July, 1879, with a Buckeye reaper and 

 binder, and the forty-seven and a quarter acres yielded me 

 twenty-one hundred and thirty bushels of wheat, averaging 

 forty-five bushels and five pounds of wheat to the acre. After 

 the wheat was cut I had the crop removed from the field in 

 order to give the clover and timothy full possession of the 

 ground. The sod is now strong, and the grass is well set. I 

 have nine head of horses and cattle pasturing in it now. 



BUILDINGS. 



The house stands six rods back from the main traveled 

 county road, running east and west, on the south side of the 

 road, facing north, in a lot containing twelve acres. The front 

 yard is filled with shade trees, evergreen and deciduous, and 

 well set in blue grass which I sowed in the Spring of 1878. 



One lot is surrounded by a board fence ; this lot is about half 

 an acre in extent, and is kept for stacking hay. It adjoins the 

 feed lots on two sides, and the meadow on the third side. The 

 other fenced lots are garden, feed lots for stock, barn-yards, etc., 

 covering from one to three acres each. 



On the place, and conveniently located to the house, I 

 have built one wheat granary twelve by thirty-four feet, and 

 ten feet high. I have a barn sixteen feet by thirty-two feet, 

 used exclusively for a stable, with a hay loft in the upper story. 



