FERTILIZERS — CATTLE. 7II 



I consider makes a convenient and perhaps judicious rotation 

 of crops. 



FERTILIZERS. 



I depend very largely for fertilizers on my stock and barn- 

 yard. I have, however, used some of what is known as Cleve- 

 land phosphate, but found little advantage from its use. I 

 prefer home made, from the barn. In applying manure I cover 

 my corn ground well, and plow it under. Then I keep what is 

 left until Fall, to apply to my wheat or to top dress it. As 

 the result of this kind of farming I raise yearly, from eighty to 

 one hundred bushels of ears of corn per acre, fifty to sixty 

 bushels of oats per acre, and about twenty bushels of wheat, on 

 an average. This is probably above the average crops of grain 

 raised by farmers generally, as this county is better adapted 

 to stock raising and dairying than it is to grain. 



CATTLE. 



For the last two years I have kept eighteen to twenty 

 cows. I use about half this number to raise calves, and the 

 remainder I milk and send their product to the factory. My 

 profits from sending milk to the factory for the last two years, 

 have been small, but when I receive ten cents per pound for 

 cheese, it pays well. 



I raise Short-Horn grades. I usually raise ten or twelve 

 calves each year. My practice is to let them suck night and 

 morning, giving a good cow two calves and a young cow but 

 one. Thus I raise some very fine animals, and find that it 

 pays much better than sending milk to the factory. 



SHEEP. 



At present I am not engaged in sheep raising. Formerly 

 I kept from one hundred and fifty to three hundred sheep, a 

 cross of the Leicester and Merino. This cross produced a good 

 hardy sheep, and a good wool clip. 



HORSES. 



I am not a " fast horse " man, but I do like a pair that can 

 do a good day's work on the farm, and get up and off when on 



