484 CALHOUN COUNTY, IOWA. 



twelve sows at once, in separate pens, to have pigs, and if 

 need be can fix the feeding room to hold half a dozen more 

 small ones. My hog house is only two feet high at the eaves. 

 It is all covered over, but the pens have no floor. I prefer the 

 bare ground. The hog house stands in the corner of the pas- 

 ture, so that I can let each sow out on grass a couple of hours 

 each day. 



HORSES. 



My horses are, of mixed breeds, some of them Normans, 

 having a cross of Hambletonian. This cross has given me 

 some very fine colts. 



CATTLE. 



The cattle are grade, or what is generally called full-blood 

 Durham. They are bred for milk, butter, and beef. 



HEDGES. 



I have about four miles of Osage hedge on the farm, most 

 of which will turn stock, and am getting it plashed down as 

 fast as nt is large enough to plash, so that it will turn hogs. 

 As sobn as our hedges will turn them, I intend to try sheep, 

 believing this country is well adapted to that branch of stock 

 raising. If sheep are properly managed, and are selected from 

 the right breeds, they will pay as well, if not better, than any 

 other kind of stock. 



W. H. FITCH, 



JACKSON, CALHOUN COUNTY. 



Description of Farm — Stock — Cattle — Hogs. 



This farm is located in Jackson Township, Calhoun 

 county, Iowa, and comprises three hundred and ninety-five 

 acres ; it is devoted to the dairy and stock raising. The soil is 

 a black loam, peculiarly adapted to corn and grass growing. One 

 hundred and twenty acres are in grass, which serves as pasture 

 for the dairy. As yet, none is in meadow, owing to our 



