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Xow, buy about fifty four year old steers ; tbese can be had here 

 now for about fifty dollars per head ; that will co^ $2,500 ; for the 

 remaining $500 buy 100 head of hogs; these can be had for five 

 cents per pound. ]N"ow for the profits of Iowa farming. I do hope 

 all will examine these figures, for they are trustworthy. 



You will have 5,000 bushels of corn, 1,000 bushels of oats, and 

 fifty tons of Hungarian grass; it oftener exceeds this than under it 

 one year with another. Set the oats to be thrashed, and the straw 

 secured by a good straw-cai-rier, and completely stacked in the shape 

 of an L, to protect the stock from the chilling winds of winter, and 

 they will do first rate. With the addition of the necessary corn 

 200 pounds can be easily stacked on each bullock, making 1,200 

 pounds. This, at seven cents per pound, the price it now commands 

 in market, making eiglity-fom* dollars for each bullock and each steer 

 while he is fattening, will fatten two hogs by having them immedi- 

 ately follow the cattle. The hogs can thus be made to weigh 250 

 pounds, making 2,500 pounds of pork. Xow let us sum up the 

 matter : 



Dr. 



Original cost of cattle at $50 per head $2? 500 



Cost of 100 hogs at 5 cents per pound 500 , 



Kent of the land 150 



$3,150 



Cr. 



50 head of cattle at $84 $1,200 



100 head of hogs, 250 pounds each, at 7 cents . . 1,750 



25 tons of millet, at $5 per tun 125 



1,000 bushels of oats, at 30 cents 300 



. 6,375 



$3,225 



Making over fifty per cent for every dollar invested, and this paid in 

 greenbacks at your own door, by the drovers scouring the country to 

 buy stock. Now show me the eastern farm that can beat these actual 

 figures. 



There is nothing in hogs and sheep alone. The former eat too 

 ranch corn, the latter too much hay. It is hard work to raise these, 

 especially the latter. But cattle will get shaking fat on these bound- 

 less meadows or prairies by the addition of a little salt during the 

 summer and fall ; will winter on oat straw, and by the aid of fifty 

 bushels of corn to each bullock, and half a tun of millet, will be in 

 splendid market condition by the first of March. 



