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settled place of feeding their stock. In the Winter they go 

 into some deserted dug-out, and during the Summer live out of 

 doors, or, at best, with only a wagon cover over them. In 

 this way they wander wherever interest or inclination leads, 

 carrying with them as little as possible to camp with. 



MORALS. 



The morals of the ranchmen are very much underrated. 

 They will compare favorably with the same number of people 

 in any other calling. Intellectually they are above the aver- 

 age. There are men here from every State in the Union. Men 

 who have come direct from the common school, and graduates 

 from our best Eastern colleges. Some young men from the 

 East, who came here to go into the cattle trade, remaiked in 

 the presence of an old ranchman " that they were all college 

 graduates." The ranchman replied, " Oh, never mind that, 

 boys, if you behave yourselves well we will receive you into 

 societv all the same !" 



CHARLES WILLIAMSON, 



WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Mixed Hashandry the Most Profitable — When and How to Sow 

 Winter Wheats Oats and G-erman Millet — Bees^ Keep 

 them Well Filled with Winter Stores — The Garden — Fruit 

 — Sheep and Hogs. 



After twenty-five years of tilling the virgin soil of Kansas, 

 subduing the wild grapes and prairie sod, and cultivating all 

 kinds of cereals, handling at the same time all kinds of stock, 

 raising all kinds of fruit, and not neglecting even the apiary, 

 I propose to give the various modes of cultivating crops which 

 are to-day the basis of successful farming in northwestern 

 Kansas. 



My farm consists of part upland prairie and part bottom 

 land, on Mill creek, on the Central branch of the Union Pacific 

 railroad. 



