PROFITS OF GRAIN. 491 



Profit, $470, from which should be deducted rent, interest, 

 and taxes, $470, leaving the net profit, 0. The next year, 1876, 

 the cost was nearly the same, while in 1877 the crop was eaten 

 up by grasshoppers. I endeavored to save it with a hopper- 

 catcher, and on that one hundred acres I caught over twenty 

 bushels of hoppers, not larger than a house fly, but I finally 

 gave it up. In 1878 my wheat was badly injured, but was 

 mostly cut. In 1879, I sowed on stalk ground about forty 

 acres of Fyfe wheat, which blighted so badly that it was not 

 cut. This wheat is an uncertain crop on stalk ground here, 

 but Osaka does much better. Red clover was tried on my 

 farm, but it seems to Winter-kill. Timothy yields about two 

 tons to the acre, and is worth five dollars per ton. 



We have abundant pasturage here on the prairies at 

 present, and our prairie grass is very nutritious. There are 

 large tracts of land lying uncultivated in some parts of the 

 county, on which hundreds of cattle are herded from the 1st of 

 May until October. It costs from sixty cents to one dollar per 

 head through the season to herd them. Turkeys do well here. 

 I feed young turke3^s on sour milk and hard-boiled eggs, until 

 they are able to take care of themselves. Corn meal will surely 

 kill young turkeys. Geese are scarce. Of chickens, I prefer 

 the Brahmas and Black Spanish. Of ducks, I have only the 

 Mallard. 



J. SIDDONS, 



TROY, DAVIS COUNTY. 



Profits Derived Largely From Corn — Rotation of Crops — Grass, 

 Shade, and Water Essential to /Successful Hog - liaising — 

 So^v and When to Make Hay — Management and Care of 

 Sheep. 



My farm is located in Davis county, which is one of the 

 southern tier of counties, and the third west from the Missis- 

 sippi river. It comprises five hundred acres of land, principally 

 prairie, there being about eighty acres of timbered land near 



