MANURING — MIXED HUSBANDRY. 583 



with snow. I do my farming differently from many in Minne- 

 sota. In the first place, I take only three crops from the 

 ground, and then manure heavily and Summer fallow every 

 third year. I sod twenty acres with timothy, and clear for 

 mowing, which gives me twenty acres sod to plow every third 

 year, though each year I have twenty acres fallow. By this 

 course I have only eighty acres in grain each year. I find my 

 fallow ground produces as well as, if not better than the 

 first crop from prairie sod. I have great faith in barnyard 

 manure. I burn no straw, stable all my stock, convert the 

 straw into manure, drawing out from two to three hundred loads 

 yearly on my fallow ground. 



JAMES T. PRICE, 



EYOTA, OLMSTEAD COUNTY. 



Mixed Husbandry — Buildings — Fruit — Artificial Groves — 



Stock. 



This farm is located in Olmstead county, Minnesota, one 

 and a half miles south of the village of Eyota, through which 

 that great thoroughfare, the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, 

 passes. I have over six hundred acres in my farm. I have 

 grown wheat with profit for twenty years, and this grain has 

 yielded from twenty-five to thirty bushels per acre. My prac- 

 tice is to pursue a rotation of crops, wheat, oats, barley, corn, 

 and roots of various kinds, keeping nearly one-half of my land 

 in clover and timothy. In the year 1879, I had seventy acres 

 of clover seed to thresh, that yielded six bushels per acre. The 

 land is rolling, and was, before being cleared, burr oak and hazel 

 brush land. My farm is under a good state of cultivation. 



BUILDINGS. 



I have two good dwelling houses for laborers, besides my 

 large two-story dwelling. My front yard is supplied with a liberal 



