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an occasional season that is favorable for storing honey. I use 

 the Langstroth hive, and Winter them out doors. 



STOCK. 



I usually feed all the corn I raise on the farm to my horses, 

 cattle and hogs, and find that it pays well. After trying 

 various breeds of hogs I call the Poland China best. They are 

 as healthy as any other breed, and are of quick growth, and 

 fatten easy at any age. But the hog disease has raged fearfully 

 the last year. Not less than four thousand have died in this 

 township in that time. I have found no remedy that will do 

 any good after they become diseased, and I have but little con- 

 fidence in any preventive. I saved part of mine (or think I 

 did) by dividing them into small lots and moving them to 

 fresh ground. 



I am improving my herd of cattle by introducing the 

 Durham stock. No other breed is raised here. 



H. B. COX, 



MISSOURI VALLEY, HARRISON COUNTY. 



A Stock Farm — Corn — Pasture Feeding and Fattening Cattle 

 — Economical Methods of Raising Hogs — Plans for Hand- 

 ling and Stacking Hay. 



My fiirm is situated in Harrison county, eight miles from 

 the Missouri river, and one mile from Missouri Valley Junction. 

 Tlie farm consists of one thousand and ninety-three acres, one 

 hundred acres of which are native forest, and eight acres are 

 in artificial groves, consisting principally of walnut, cotton- 

 wood and box elder. Six hundred acres are in cultivation, and 

 fifty acres fenced for mow land. The remainder is commons. 



CORN. 



In the cultivation of the soil, I confine myself almost en- 



