IOWA. 



I. C. CURRIER, 



SALIX, WOODBURY COUNTY. 



TAe Opening of a Stock Farm — Cost of Breaking and the 

 First Crop — How to Feed Cattle — Profit of Sheep — Hogs. 



LA.KEPOKT STOCK FARM. 



My farm is situated one-half mile from Salix, and fifteen 

 miles from Sioux City, on the main road to the latter place. I 

 have three hundred and twenty acres of land, lying on the 

 Missouri bottom. Farmers who have been here twenty years, 

 say that they can raise as good corn as ever, and the land has 

 never had a spoonful of manure. Considerable of the ground is 

 too low to cultivate, but makes good mow-land, and an excel- 

 lent range for stock. The water is good and the climate health3\ 



The banks of the Missouri are covered with timber, such 

 as Cottonwood, bass, ash, hackberry, elm, maple, etc. Cotton- 

 wood lumber is worth ten dollars per thousand ; cordwood two 

 dollars a cord delivered. There is a good market here for our 

 productions, as they go both North and East. 



BUILDINGS. 



My corn barn is fort}'' feet long and twenty-six wide. 

 There are two bins, eight feet wide, one on each side of the 

 wagon-shed, which is ten feet wide. Over the wagon-shed 

 there is a floor made by running joists from one bin to the 

 other, which makes a large place to store farm machinery, and 

 for a general store-house. I have windows on the outside to 

 shovel in the corn. The corn barn can be so constructed that 

 one can drive through the center, but in this case there can be 

 no room over the wagon-shed. 



I make my cattle sheds fourteen feet wide. I take cedar 

 posts and set them two feet in the ground and eight feet out 



