MICHIGAN. 



B. F. PARTRIDGE, 



BAY CITY, BAY COUNTY. 



Buildings — Cultivation — Barley — Oats — Potatoes — Fruit — 

 Soil and Timhei Stock — Water. 



OAK RIDGE FARM. 



My house stands back from the Bay City and Wattrons- 

 ville plank road about fifteen rods. A lane leads from the 

 plank road back twenty rods, and then south and parallel with 

 the plank road aboul; fifty rods, and again back to the road, 

 passing in the rear of the house, and between the house and 

 barns, and other buildings, with the pear orchard in the field 

 around the house, and other fruits adjoining. My apple 

 orchard of eleven hundred trees is on the opposite side of the 

 plank road. 



My barns are situated more than one hundred feet apart, 

 and the same distance from the house. 



My water is carried from the windmill to the stables and 

 yards in wooden water pipes. 



"WHEAT. 



My mode of cultivation is to plant wheat every year, in 

 more or less quantity. Some fields I drill in, while others I 

 pulverize the ground with the Rand pulverizer, which buries 

 the seed about right. Other wheat I drag in, but I prefer 

 drilling and pulverizing, rather than dragging, as the seed is 

 all covered, and will not freeze out as readily as when it is 

 but partly covered. 



I have never yet Summer fallowed my wheat land, but 

 have sowed after peas, barley and oats, and have raised from 



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