566 LE SUEUR COUNTY, MINNESOTA. 



poultry line, having rcaised about one hundred this year, of the 

 Bronze variety, which I think is the very best. I have not as 

 yet a fancy hen house, but manage to keep the fowls comfort- 

 able in Winter 



CLIMATIC. 



In reference to the desirableness of this region for a home, 

 I believe, taking every thing into consideration, it is the best 

 location for farming in the United States. The people are 

 healthy, and the stock vigorous and hearty. The land is rich 

 and easily tilled ; the water the purest and best. The markets 

 are good, wood is plenty, and the climate equable, although 

 from the extreme heat of Summer to Winter's blast, the varia- 

 tion of the thermometer is as great as an}^ where else ; still, the 

 daily range is so much less than in other places, that the ex- 

 tremes are not so noticeable. 



A. B. SWAINE, 



ELYSIAN, LE SUEUR COUNTY. 



Corn — Oats — Sugar Cane — Cows and Calves — Hogs — Fruit 

 — Profits — Timber Farming. 



LAKE FARM. 



In the Spring of 1865, I came to Minnesota, and settled in 

 the "big woods" in the town of Elysian, Le Sueur county. 

 M}^ farm consists of three fractional eighty acre lots, being a 

 little less than a quarter section. My farming operations are 

 necessarily small. My land is heavily timbered with oak, elm, 

 basswood and maple, and is situated on the north shore of the 

 center one of a chain of three lakes, which extend east and 

 west, a distance of five miles. The road runs on the west side, 

 also along the shore of a small lake. There is a lake on the 

 northwest and one on the northeast corner, so that frost seldom 

 does any damage before the middle of October. My house is 



