(3yt; SEWARD COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 



is to prepare the soil precisely as if I were going to raise a large 

 crop of corn. The quickest way to raise a grove is with cut- 

 tings or small sprouts of cottonwood or willow. I plow, drag 

 and mark the same as for corn, four feet each way, which will 

 give two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-two hills to 

 the acre. I then plant one-half to trees, four feet one way and 

 eight feet the other, making one thousand, eight hundred and 

 sixty-one trees ; and the other half I plant in corn for two 

 years, so as to pay for cultivation. This metliod affords them 

 all the cultivation needed. I adopt the same plan in planting 

 acorns, hickory nuts, white and black walnut, soft maple, elm 

 and ash, where the sprouts are one yenv old. White pine, 

 arbor vitse, red cedar, European and American larch, when 

 large enough to transplant, require more cultivation. I esti- 

 mate the cost of preparing an acre and setting the cuttings of 

 soft maple or ash, at three dollars per acre. I can plant two 

 and one-half acres per day. This is all their cost for ten years. 

 Hiave ^ome cottonwood trees six years old wliich will measure 

 six an,d seven inches through, and they are from sixteen to 

 twenty feet high. 



CLAUDIUS JONES, 



SEWARD, SEWAED COUNTY. 



A Model Barn — Its Accommodations. 



A MODEL BArwN. 



My farm consists of six hundred and forty acres, situated 

 one mile from town. My main building is forty by eighty feet 

 in dimensions, with twenty-foot posts, the whole surmounted 

 by a gambrel roof. A shed, twelve feet wide, surrounds it 

 entirely. 



I built the mows so that they have capacity for holding 

 two hundred tons of hay. I have two hundred and sixty-four 



