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You will now proceed to fence the twenty acres you 

 have broken up. Counting two panels of ten-feet rails 

 to the rod, which is hardly crooked enough, but will an- 

 swer, it will take four thousand eight hundred say five 

 thousand rails and slakes ; and an addition of sixteen 

 hundred more will fence the whole forty acres, making 

 six thousand four hundred ; and about six hundred more 

 for the necessary yards around the house and stable, ma- 

 king seven thousand in all which if you will get out in 

 the course of the winter, and get up a good supply of 

 wood, besides your other necessary work, you may be 

 set down for an industrious man. But by exchanging 

 your team work for manual labor, you can accomplish 

 it, so that the spring finds you in possession of forty 

 acres of prairie land, well fenced, ten of it in wheat and 

 ten ready for a spring crop, a comfortable dwelling, and 

 stable and yards, etc. Now let us proceed. It is possi- 

 ble your wheat is winter killed then sow the whole with 

 spring wheat, and harrow it in as early as possible but 

 if not killed, then sow two acres of the other ten, in 

 spring wheat ; seven in oats, and the other acre for 

 a " truck patch," the spot intended for a garden, being 

 planted in potatoes this year, as best calculated to mellow 

 the ground. 



Previous to the tenth of June, get two more acres broke 

 up and sow it in buckwheat ; and if you find yourself 

 able, get eight acres more broken up for wheat this year, 

 not more. Do not undertake too much, remember that ; but 

 keep doing, and in time you will accomplish wonders. 



This fall you will be able to plough the old ground 

 for a spring crop of wheat, oats and corn. Put all the 

 manure on the garden spot. Cut more hay, and get a 

 few calves, and half a-dozen sheep, and in time you will 

 have a largo stock, and a large farm, and build a new 



