FARM IMPLEMENTS. 761 



I. B. SMITH, 



QUEENSVILLE, JENNINGS COUNTY. 



Com — Stock — Creameries — Fruit — Buildings. 



I commenced farming some forty-three years ago, with no 

 other capital than my hands and brains and a good constitu- 

 tion. I now own thirteen hundred acres, all fenced, and 

 nearly all under a good state of cultivation. This land has 

 cost me from sixteen to forty dollars per acre. These lands 

 are divided into three farms of 400, 425, and 500 acres each» 

 lying near each other. I have from four to five hundred acres 

 in meadow timothy, clover, and red top. I raise from sixty to 

 eighty acres of corn, annually ; from thirty to fifty acres of 

 oats, and from forty to one hundred acres of wheat. These 

 are my principal crops. The rest of my farms are in pasturage. 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



I have three mowing machines, and one combined machine, 

 all Champions. I have one of Foust's hay-loaders. I have 

 four harpoon forks, of three different patterns, which I con- 

 sider of great advantage. I have, in addition, six horse-rakes, 

 also racks and carriers in three of my barns. I have five chilled 

 breaking plows, and three steel plows. The chilled plows are 

 of Oliver's patent, and Wagner's. I also use two double culti- 

 vators, and six double shovel-plows. I have, also, four har- 

 rows of different patterns, but give the preference to a spring- 

 tooth harrow made at Kalamazoo, Mich. I have, also, tlie corn 

 and wheat drills, besides the ordinary small wing plows, some 

 four in number, and also one sub-soil plow. 



STOCK. 



In regard to the stock I keep, I have fifteen horses and 

 mules, seven teams, and one single- horse. 1 have five two- 



