722 FULTON COUNTY, OHIO. 



lake for three or four miles wide, are sandy, and well adapted 

 to fruit and small garden culture. On these sand ridges the 

 land is valuable, averaging from seventy-five to one hundred 

 dollars per acre. Back of this for twenty miles it is mostly 

 clay or gravelly soil, stony land, susceptible of high culture, 

 and good grass land. It was originally heavily timbered with 

 beech, maple, ash, white wood, and a little oak and hemlock in 

 some places. The main business of this county for years has 

 been butter and cheese, and stock raising. These improved 

 farms range in price from twenty to fifty dollars per acre, and 

 pay good returns if properly managed. 



D. W. H. HOWARD, 



WASEON, FULTON COUNTY. 



* Profit of Sheep — Under Drainage. 



SITUATION OP FARM. 



My farm has four hundred acres,. which are mostly black 

 land, with clay subsoil. A ridge of high land runs through it, 

 furnishing springs (or what answers for them) in abundance. I 

 have excavated several pools of one-half to three-quarter 

 acres extent in each, at a depth of five to six feet, which fur- 

 nish pure, cool water for stock. As they are shaded with 

 maple trees, which I planted on their borders, stock have cool 

 places for standing when the weather is hot. They often 

 stand up to the belly in water. 



STOCK. 



I have kept forty head of cattle and horses, and one thou- 

 sand sheep on my place for many years. I do not house my 

 animals in Winter, but have plenty of open sheds in conven- 

 ient places (usually in the edge of the timber), where they 

 can go in and out at pleasure, feeding hay and corn fodder on 

 dry ground. My sheep are fed in wet weather in open box 



