710 GEAUGA COUNTY, OHIO. 



thirty, which I replaced with others. Trees need to be 

 watched and cared for, and they repay for time and expense, 

 provided we have the right varieties. The same treatment 

 holds good with peaches as well as apples. But if trees are 

 neglected, if cattle run among them, they will break and 

 destroy them, and soon the orchard is gone. I would say, 

 plant trees, and then take care of them, and you will be satis- 

 fied with the results." 



HARVEY ROBB, 



MroDLEFIELD, GEAUGA COUNTY. 



Soil — Cattle — Sheep — Horses — Hogs — Fruit — Fertilizers 



— Buildings. 



My farm is situated on the east and west center road, and 

 consists of two hundred and fifteen acres, about one-third south 

 and two-thirds north of the road, the whole tract being of 

 oblong form. 



SOIL. 



The soil is of a sandy loam, with a very slight admixture 

 of clay. My farm is about three-quarters rolling upland and 

 about one-quarter bottom laud. 



PASTURE AND PLOW LAND. 



I have one hundred acres in cattle pasture, besides three 

 small pastures. I mow about forty acres annually. I have 

 three plowed lots of about eight acres each, on which I raise 

 wheat, corn and oats, and twenty-six acres of woodland. 



METHOD OF CULTIVATION. 



I break up about eight acres for corn. The Spring follow- 

 ing sow it to oats, and in the Fall I plow under the oat stubble 

 and sow to wheat and seed down to timothy and clover, which 



