774 GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA. 



cattle and hogs on my place, but I am strongly impressed that 

 sheep raising and feeding will pay, and if hog diseases continue, 

 I shall direct my attention to raising sheep. 



HOW I RAISE CORN. 



My bottom land is annually planted in corn. I drag the 

 stalks down (will try a stalk cutter), rake them together, and 

 burn them before plowing. Corn planted three and one-half 

 feet apart both ways, and cultivated four times with a two- 

 horse cultivator, yields sixty to seventy bushels of shelled corn 

 per acre. I husk my corn as soon as dry enough to crib it, and 

 my stalk fields are pastured with cattle. I devote thirty to 

 forty acres of upland each year to this crop. For this purpose 

 a sod is turned over early in Spring, planted and cultivated as 

 would bottom land, and I have an average yield of fifty bushels 

 per acre. Formerly I plowed my sod in the Fall, but I find 

 corn grows stronger and is easier tended when I break early in 

 the Spring. The upland crop, however, I do not remove, but 

 my hogs are turned on as soon as the corn is in good roasting 

 ears, say August tenth, and eaten off. 



In September I turn the stalks under, harrow the ground, 

 and spread about seven four-horse wagon loads of manure over 

 the surface. Then I cross harrow and drill one bushel of wheat 

 in to the acre, together with one bushel of timothy seed to each 

 ten acres. I use the seed sower before the hoes. In the Spring 

 I sow one bushel of clover seed to about ten acres, cross ways. 

 My average yield of wheat for the last five years on all land 

 sown is twenty bushels. On good land I sometimes raise a 

 second crop of wheat ; when such is the case, I always give it 

 a light top dressing of manure. If I follow the oat ground 

 with wheat, the manure is never omitted. 



TIMOTHY AND OATS. 



Sometimes I cut my first crop of timothy in part, for seed, 

 but rarely more than needed for my own use. My average 

 product of hay (pure hay, and clear of any and all weeds,) per 

 acre, is two tons, but I have raised as much as three tons. I 



