g32 THAYER COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 



S. G. SCHOONOVER, 



CAllLETON, THAYER COUNTY. 



Soil of the Counts/ — Building Stone — Implements Used — 

 Wheat Raising — Fruits — Timber. 



The soil of this county is deep, black, rich, and mellow. 

 Tliere is plenty of building stone in the quarries, but none on 

 the surface. The water is clear and soft. All kinds of crops 

 grow luxuriantly. Tiie seasons of 1877, 1878, and 1879, were 

 rather wet. The surface of the country is Tolling prairie. 



SOIL EXHAUSTLESS. 



The soil can never be exhausted until every hill and val- 

 ley whick composes it is washed away. 



MACHINERY. 



I use the following farming implements : The John Deere 

 breaking plow, which I have used for ten years with good suc- 

 cess ; a Wood's mower, Bufort & Warren gang and sulky 

 plows, Furst & Bradley walking corn plow, Furst & Bradley 

 sulky rake, a McCorraick reaper, and a Turner header, with 

 which I cut most of my grain. I cut from fifteen to twenty 

 acres a day, and put it in the stack. It employs five teams and 

 seven hands. I keep my farming implements under shelter 

 when not in use. I find, by actual test, that they will last four 

 times as long by taking this care ; and I also make it a rule to 

 repair them at once whenever they require. 



COST O-F CROPS. 



It costs from sixty to sevent3''-five cents per bushel to 

 raise wheat , corn from ten to fifteen cents ; oats from ten to 

 twelve and a half cents ; barley from twenty-five to thirty-five 



