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walked away with it. I always raise from forty to sixty 

 bushels of oats per acre when I sow them, but have substituted 

 millet as more profitable. I confess that my wheat cost one 

 dollar per bushel to raise it ; and last year thirteen bushels of 

 peaches brought me twenty bushels of choice wheat. Oats 

 were only worth ten to twelve and a half cents per bushel, and 

 wheat sixty-five cents, a poor return surely for one's labor. 



CORN AND MILLET. 



I have another field containing twenty acres, sixteen acres 

 in corn and four acres in German or pearl millet. The corn is 

 making fifty bushels to the acre, and will average even better 

 than that. I am feeding it to fifty head of stock hogs of my 

 own raising. The millet I had cut and bound with a harvester 

 for one dollar and a half per acre ; it yields forty bushels of 

 seed per acie. I stacked it, and it kept nicely. I expect to 

 get enough for the straw (having abundance of other feed) to 

 pay for threshing it, and sell the seed. 



GOOD WATER. 



Next we come to the last field of ten acres, two acres of 

 which is water and timber ; a stream from two to four rods 

 wide, and one to five feet deep, runs through it, with a good 

 wagon-road crossing at the most convenient point. There I 

 raise my potatoes, and this season I have five acres of corn 

 there. The corn I cut up twelve hills square, as the most 

 convenient size, and will feed to stock cattle and horses. 



HOG SHED. 



A shed for hogs is built with hay roof, by putting in forks 

 and stout poles with rails and brush for covering. The floor 

 can be dispensed with by filling up with clay, or gravel and 

 earth. Hogs should be kept dry and clean, and not be 

 crowded. This pen can be enlarged by taking out partition; 

 doors fasten with hook and staples. 



A CONVENIENT BARN. 



My Darn was built this season, with stone basement, 

 fourteen by twenty, laid up in mortar, and eight feet high to 



