682 



DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA. 



P. L. SHARE, 



EOSEMONT, DAKOTA COUNTY. 



Admirable Division of a Quarter Section — Fallowing and 



Manuring. 



I have one hundred and sixty acres under cultivation and 

 laid off in fields as per plan. You will see that I have no land 

 wasted for drive- way but the lane from the barnyard into the 

 pasture lot. The pasture field is permanent, and has now been 

 in grass for fifteen years, and is seeded with timothy and blue 

 grass, which have produced immense crops. During 1879, I 

 kept on full feed sixteen head of stock until ground was covered 



