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PAGE COUNTY, IOWA. 



The orchard has four rows of maples on the north and west» 

 and three rows on the south and east. There are besides, 

 rows of soft maples on the north, east, south and west of the 

 feed lots, which with the buildings afford protection from the 

 winds in Winter, and shade in Summer. The southwest forty 

 acres have the buildings, feed lots, the orchard, a field of 

 twelve acres north of the orchard, and the hog pasture, also 

 a lane, twenty feet wide, crossing it to the north eighty acres. 



PLAN OF THE FARM. 



O — Stock well. 1 — House and yard. 2, 3 — Feed yards. 4 — Hog house. 

 5 — Stable, granary and crib. 6 — Orchard. 7— :Hog pasture. 8 — Artichokes. 

 9 — 12-acre field. 10 — 20-acre field. 11 — 25 acre pasture. 12 — Lane. 



HOGS. 



I breed the Poland China hogs, of which I have a large 

 number of very fine ones. I breed from twenty to twenty-five 

 sows each year, which raise me from eighty to one hundred 

 and fifty pigs yearly. My sows farrow in April, May, and 

 June. As soon as ray young pigs will eat it, I feed them on 

 shelled corn, soaked until it is almost ready to sprout. I give 



