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venieiices that ingenuity can devise (against wliicli I aa^ouIcI 

 not, however, discriminate), but I would, b}- selecting suitable 

 ground make sheds and stabling of common, rough, and clieap 

 lumber, that will protect my stock from the storms and wind 

 of this prairie country in Winter, and tlie heat of the Summer 

 sun, at a cost that will be amply repaid every year. Tliis prin- 

 ci[)le is not restricted to the few, but applicable alike to all, 

 from the man who keeps a cow and pig, to him who counts his 

 flocks and herds by the hundreds. 



CATTLE. 



I have but little experience in fattening cattle, but if my 

 experience is worth anything, it teaches me that the proper 

 method of fattening cattle is to stable them, give the best of 

 feed (they will take on flesh all the faster), and allow them to 

 go out during the warm part of the d:iy. What I regard as true 

 of cattle is- also true of any other kind of stock I wish to feed to 

 the best advantao-e. 



F. T. PILKINGTON, 



ELKPORT, CLAYTON COUNTY. 



Rotation of Crops and Tliorough Manuring Produce Good 

 llesults — It Pays to Clean Wheat. 



My farm consists of one hundred and twenty acres, seventy- 

 five of which are under cultivation. The remainder is a pas- 

 ture. A farm of this size pa^'s best, managed under a system 

 of mixed husbandry. The pasture and woodland contain forty- 

 five acres, and I have divided the remainder into three fields, 

 each of which have Avater. 



ROTATION. 

 I aim to have only one kind of grain in a field, so that 

 as soon as a crop is harvested I can at once turn my stock into 

 it. Every year I raise about twenty-five acres of wheat, twenty 



