IMPLEMENTS — GRAIN. 565 



In making cheese we use a large galvanized iron vat for setting 

 and warming the milk, and a lioop of the same for pressing in. 

 For a press I took four sixteen inch, half inch carriage bolts, 

 had the threads cut about six inches long, and put them 

 through a two-inch plank, with a plank on top. With such a 

 press a seven year old boy can press a cheese all it needs. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



The farm implements consist of plows, wagons, harrows,, 

 sleighs, a cornsheller, a two-horse tread power thresher, separ- 

 ator and cleaner combined, a horse corn plow, header, mowing 

 machine, horse hay-rake, horse hay-fork, and all other small 

 tools used on a farm. With the header to cut the grain and 

 the thresher to thresh with at pleasure, the cost of cutting and 

 threshing is lessened more than half. 



GRAIN. 



All the grain raised on the farm is fed on the place, except 

 the wheat, which is made more of a specialty than any other one 

 thing. It is impossible to give the cost per bushel of raising 

 grain, as the yield per acre varies so much in different years.- 

 The cost per acre is usually about five dollars, including har- 

 vesting and storing. For a good crop I plow the ground in 

 the Fall before any frost, then harrow. This, put in early in 

 the Spring, always gives the best returns. The wheat when 

 harvested is carried by the header into large beds or boxes on 

 wagons drawn by horses, when it is taken directly to the place 

 of storing, in barn or stack. I find that grain can be stored 

 in a barn greener than in a stack and cure well ; it makes no 

 difference about the size of the mow. The threshing is done 

 by a two-horse tread-power thresher, late in the Fall or during 

 the Winter, when the stock need the straw. They appear to 

 enjoy the fresh threshed straw, and use it most all up. During 

 cold weather the grain threshes cleaner, and help is cheaper. 



FOWLS. 



Living on the prairie, I have no good place to keep ducks 

 and geese, and so make the raising of turkeys a specialty in the 



