QOQ HAMILTON COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 



stroyers of bugs, etc. ; much uiore useful in this respect than 

 common fowls. They are great layers, and their flesh is number 



one as a tabic fowl. 



fak:m i-mplements. 



I brought with me a McCormick Advance reaper, Quincy 

 corn planter with Haworth's check rower, LaSalle plows, both 

 old ground and breaking. I consider them number one. A 

 Joliet corn sheller, power, and an O'Brien Bros, vibrating har- 

 row, with Black Hawk and LaSalle corn cultivators, complete 

 my stock of implements. 



BREAKING SOD. 



On the railroad quarter I broke forty acres last year. I 

 put in thirty-two acres of it in wheat that averaged about ten 

 buslicls. I plowed deeper and put in eight acres of corn that 

 have done fiiirly, probably thirty-flve bushels per acre. I have 

 now broken on the railroad land about one hundred and ten 

 acres, and on tlie other about fifty acres. I expect to sow 

 seventy acres of Spring wheat, and plant eighty acres of corn. 



THE GARDEN. 



My garden is large, as I raise many kinds of garden 

 vegetables. I never saw such carrots as grew here last year ; 

 beets and onions did well, also salsify. Tomatoes and cabbages 

 I raised equal to Illinois. Peas, the Jack rabbits would eat up 

 nights and I did not have as many as I planted. Beans did not 

 do well ; were rather a failure. My sweet corn was number one. 

 Turnips were nice and large. My melons very fine. Winter 

 squashes are not dry this year, as they generally are here, but 

 appear immature. 



FRUIT TREES. 



On this farm I found twenty-four apple trees, about one 

 hundred plum trees, wild ones, that were transplanted. There 

 are also four plum groves on my creek, and I have at least 

 six or eight distinct varieties, yellow, purple, etc. Some of 

 them .are very nice. I found a few grape vines, said to be 

 Concords, and on the creek some wild ones, which bore grapes 

 as large as the Clintons. I re-set the apple trees, as they 



