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intend to build a park next season for their accommodation. 

 They will pay well for the trouble and money invested, as 1 

 have made a profit of fifty cents from every hen the past Sum- 

 mer. I feed them corn, screenings of wheat, barley and oats, 

 and in early Spring add meat, cut finely, and mixed with corn- 

 meal. 



FRUIT. 



Apples have never been raised here, as the idea has been 

 prevalent that this was not a fruit countr3^ I have a good 

 nursery now, and have twenty-five fine growing trees that 

 will bear the coming season. Small fruit thrives well here. 

 I have a quarter of an acre of strawberries, which yield well. 

 I can not give the exact yield as I never kept an account, but 

 I had sufficient for eating and canning. Gooseberries, cur- 

 rants and raspberries also do well. I had only enough, how- 

 ever, of these for family use. 



Rock river is well supplied with fish, principally pike, 

 pickerel, rock bass, and red suckers. It would be a fine thing 

 to get some other varieties. I think some thing will be done 

 in that line this comiuGf Summer. 



D. F. AKIN, 



FARMINGTON, DAKOTA COUNTY. 



Buildings — Stabling and Feeding Stock — Morses — Cattle — 

 Sheep — Hogs — Bees — Fruit — Implements — Grain — 

 Climate. 



ROCK DELL FARM 



is situated about two and a half miles northwest of Farming- 

 ton, Dakota county, Minnesota, on the Minnesota division of 

 the Chicago & St. Paul railroad, and one and three-quarter 

 miles north of the Hastings and Dakota division of the same 

 railroad. It consists of three hundred and thirty-five acres, 

 about one hundred and thirty of which are low, level prairie, 

 thirty acres each of meadow and timber, seventy acres of 



