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strong competition sold them at an average price of $1 per 

 bushel. TJie varieties are Stump the World and Old Nixon 

 freestone. The peculiar feature of this growth is, that it was 

 raised from budded fruit and sold as seedling fruit on its 

 merits. The trees were planted twelve feet apart each way. 

 Sixteen feet would be a better distance. 



APPLES. 



My orchard consists of 136 trees, planted twenty-eight 

 feet apart each way. It has just commenced to bear, but not 

 sufficiently to market the fruit. There are orchards here, 

 planted twenty years ago, twenty-four feet by twenty-eight, 

 whose branches touch now. I let my hogs run in the orchard, 

 and am feeding them there at this time, and have not noticed 

 any damage done yet. 



HORSES AND COWS. 



I keep three horses to do the work, and for pleasure. My 

 wagon bed I have set on heavy half springs, which hold up 

 any'thing^I want to haul. I keep cows enough to supply me 

 with butter and milk, and have some surplus. I keep geese 

 and chickens, and my sales of poultry at times is considerable. 



FENCING. 



My fences consist of hedge (Osage orange) set eight inches 

 apart, trimmed several years, and finally splashed, cut, and 

 laid flat, with rails piled on to hold down until grown 

 together ; then trimmed to three feet wide, and kept at four 

 and one-half feet high. This is pig-tight, and horse and bull 

 strong. I have a board fence made with from four to six 

 boards, and the orchard fences are of four and six inch pine 

 boards, twelve to sixteen feet long, with short posts, made from 

 rails cut in two in the center. Tliese answer every purpose, and 

 make a good hog fence. 



WHEAT. 



I have raised three crops of wheat. Two of Spring, aver- 

 aging eleven bushels per acre, and one of Winter, averaging 

 thirteen bushels per acre. I sowed once and the grasshoppers 



