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almost incessantly, and we had to haul our house ]op;s four miles 

 through the mud. But as ex-President A. J. says, " There is life in 

 us yet;" and we enjoy it better than when living in town dependent 

 on others for employment. On the 8th of last December we moved 

 into our house without any doors or windows, and not all the floor 

 laid, and no pointing in. I have taken a claim, and am going to try 

 farming next year by planting about live acres in potato. Odd and 

 even sections are alike being settled, and the only question now is, 

 how will we get our land, as rumors abroad are that the railroad will 

 get the odd, and settlers will get the even at $1.25 per acre, but as 

 yet nothing definite is known here in regard to it. A railroad would 

 be a very nice thing, l»ut a home for the industrious poor, better. 



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Mr. O. P. Laird, Mesopotamia, Trnml)nU county, Ohio. — How 

 much ought a four-year old lieifer to give that she may be called a 

 good one ? One of my neighbors and myself were discussing the 

 above question, and each regarding his four-year old the better, we 

 agreed to weigh milk for six consecutive days, with the following 

 result, as per table inclosed. These were cows kept in a dairy, having 

 no extra feed, the time being just between hay and grass: 



No. 1— A four year old. Mornia-.'. Evening. Total. 



May 10 18 20i 38^ 



May 11 18 23 40 



May 13 19 22 41 



May 13 l'.)i 22 4U 



Mav 14 20 21 4l'' 



MaV 15 22 21 43 



Total 245 



No. 2— A four year old. Morning. Evening. Total. 



May Kt 18 21 30 



May 11 18^ 21^ 40 



May 12 18^ 22 40^ 



May 13 19 22 41 



May 14 19 22 41^ 



May 15 20 22^ 42 



Total 244 



Wf.kds. 

 Mr. S. W. Hemingway, East Do Kalb, N. Y., sends a weed that 

 lias got into his clover seed. What is it? If foul, how can f "-et 



