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farm, so that all the straw and stalks are fed out, and the ma- 

 nure is hauled out on the farm, good crops will come, and it 

 is much easier and better to drive a good bunch of fat steers and 

 fat hogs ten or fifteen miles, than to be stringing along haul- 

 ing corn, when the farmer should be at home plowing or attend- 

 ing to his stock, spreading the manure out over his fields, or 

 doing what there may be to do. v 



A GRAZING PASTURE. 



I propose to add to my farm about one thousand acres of 

 land, situated some fifty miles west, as that is as near as I can 

 obtain good grazing grounds cheap, in a body. I shall put my 

 breeding stock on this ranch, where I can keep them the year 

 round with little expense. Thorough-bred cattle will be raised 

 on the farm, and cattle that are about ready for the market will 

 be brought to the farm and finished off in good shape by feed- 

 ing on tame grass and corn. 



GRAIN CROPS. 



Of the small grain crops, Fall wheat is the most profitable 

 here, and should be raised largel}', as corn can not, or should 

 not, be raised, more than every other year, on the same ground. 

 There is certainly no other small grain raised with so much 

 success or profit as Fall wheat. 



A PEACH ORCHARD. 



One man with a plow and two or three boys to drop peach 

 pits, can plant a peach orchard in one day, that will, when three 

 years old, yield more peaches than one family will want, and 

 will make all the firewood needed for three or four years and 

 still be a peach orchard, unless, of course, it should meet with 

 some misfortune. Labor spent in planting trees and hedges, 

 and caring for them while young, is always well rewarded. 



Clover, which grows so finely in our State, should not 

 be neglected; it should be on every farm, for it will produce 

 more and better pasture, for five months of the year, than 

 any thing else used. 



