600 JOHNSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 



wheat or grass, sowing about the middle of August, one bushel 

 and a half per acre. I sow early because I want it for Fall and 

 Winter pasture. The latter pays for seed, labor, and use of 

 land, leaving the crop of rye, which yields generally from ten 

 to twenty busliels per acre, as clear gain. Rye makes good 

 feed either soaked or ground. 



OATS. 



For oats I plow my land early in Spring, sow in March, 

 about three bushels per acre, and harrow twice. I harvest and 

 handle oats in the same manner as other small grain, but if cut 

 with the lieader, I let it lie, in order to cure, then rake with 

 sulky rake, and stack the same as wheat. 



Oats are valuable for feeding teams, but do not pay as a 

 maikefc crop. Daring Summer, teams can stand much more 

 work fed on oats than on corn. 



HOGS. 



' I liave found the Poland Chinas the best breed of hogs; 

 they are adapted either to feed young or to mature and be made 

 into large hogs. I have made them weigh on an average over 

 three hundred pounds at one year old ; and at sixteen months 

 old over four hundred pounds. They are large, well-propor- 

 tioned hogs. I think it will pay every farmer raising hogs to 

 procure a pure, well-bred Poland China male pig, with which 

 to keep up his stock. The Poland China and the Magie hog 

 are the same. This breed originated in Butler and Warren 

 counties, Ohio, over thirty years ago. Mr. A. C. Moore left 

 Butler county, in 1853 or 1854, moving the breed of hogs with 

 him to Fulton county, Illinois, where he has had good success 

 in breeding and distributing them throughout this western 

 country. 



DISEASES OF THE HOG. 



The disease called hog cholera is not u,ew ; it was known 

 previous to 1850, but was not as general as now, because hogs 

 had ;i wider range, not being kept in close pens as much as 

 they now are. It has been stated, but I think erroneously, 



