724 STARK COUNTY, OHIO. 



JAMES Mcdowell, 



CANTON, STARK COUNTY. 



Pasture — Rotation — Short-Horns — Sheep — Barn and Racks. 



LOCUST GROVE FARM. 



My farm proper contains one hundred and sixty acres, 

 divided as follows : One hundred and twenty acres are cleared 

 land, and forty acres are timber, consisting principally of white 

 oak, chestnut, hickory, maple, and locust. 



PASTURAGE. 



In one-half of my timber the small underbrush, such as 

 dogwood, ironwood, etc., is all trimmed out, the result of which 

 is that a "Hue natural growth of blue and spear grass covers my 

 ground,' furnishing the best pasturage for sheep, while it seems 

 to be no detriment to the larger growth of timber, but leaves 

 it to the farm, with all the advantages of protection and 

 beauty. 



The remainder of the timber is left as Nature cares for it, 

 and stock are not allowed to run through it. As it is cut down 

 or dies out, a younger growth fills its place. 



ROTATION OF CROPS. 



My land which is cleared I have divided into ten acre 

 fields, for convenience in pasturing and rotation of crops, about 

 as follows : I sow wheat, corn, oats or barley ; wheat with 

 clover and timothy seed, to cut for hay the following one or 

 two years, rotating in the order named, then pasturing from 

 three to five years. My practice has been, to fallow stiff sod 

 in July or August, and after stirring it well, seed in wheat 

 from the twelfth to the twentieth of September. During the 

 Fall and Winter months following after I harvest the wheat, I 

 haul the barnyard manure, and spread it as hauled evenly over 



