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THE GRANGER'S HOME. 



which they have fast been sinking. I have not been 

 able to visit Colonel Cochrane at his home, and am 

 therefore unable to speak of his farm from personal 

 knowledge, but some idea of the magnitude of his 

 operations may be obtained from the fact that he has 

 under the highest state of cultivation nearly 1000 acres 

 of excellent land, and finished, this recently, the 

 threshing of his crop of 3200 bushels of as good wheat 

 as was ever sent to market from the State of Wiscon- 

 sin. His crop in a single year has been 6000 bushels. 

 " I met Colonel Cochrane on the cars between Wau- 



