392 WASHINGTON COUNTY, KANSAS. 



mizc time, as from it my bees are always to be seen. My bed- 

 rooms liave sunlight and pure air. 



We use no tobacco or alcoholic drinks at our home, but 

 after the day's work is done, my boys and girls gather around 

 the table to read the monthly magazines and other journals. 



God made the country, and in its well-ordered farm homes 

 will be raised the children who are our present hope and 

 future rulers — our nation's safeguard. 



FEEDING AND WATERING STOCK. 



Here in the West we utilize; our streams and springs for 

 watering our stock, for plenty of good water is as much a 

 necessity as food. Ou the prairie we use windmills. For 

 feeding stock and cattle we use a square pen, the posts set in 

 the ground, and poles or plank nailed on, made tight below, 

 so that the hogs can not break in. We feed corn in long 

 wooden trouglis or boxes two feet wide, ten inches high, and 

 sixteen feet long. The posts are set in the ground, with cross 

 pieces to hold up the same. 



For stieep all we need is a dry, open shed, facing the south 

 on rolling ground, so that the manure and water will not settle 

 there. 



The fountains of our springs are so high that we conduct 

 water into tlie house, barn, sheds, and yards, the Avhole year 

 round. On one of my farms at Palmer, on the Pacific 

 raih'Oad, the tank at the depot is supplied from a spring one 

 hundred yards from it, and conducted under ground. It then 

 rises twenty-five feet, keeping a large tank full. On the 

 same farm, and sometimes not over twenty-five feet distant 

 from each otlicr, will be found soft, hard, and medicinal springs. 

 My hogs are supplied with a pump alongside of the pig pen. 

 The hogs left out run to the creek. 



AMBER CANE. 



I consider this a promising industry. I raised sixteen acres 

 of cane this year, and found a ready market at fifty 

 cents a gallon. Next year I expect to make sugar. I always 

 place my mill higher than my boiler. The sirup made from 



