FARM MANAGEMENT. 



Statement of Farm Management and Products, for the year 1861, by 

 S. W. Arnold, near Cortland, De Kalb county, Illinois, to whom was 

 awarded the second premium on farms of 160 acres and upwards. 



The Oat Crop was dimiftess. ~ There^re/insiances with farmers in which debt can 



hopDers who eat off the^ ardl y be avoided > as was the case here in 1856 and 185,7 » 



^" ? -, , ' , .the grasshoppers destroyed our crops two years in sueees- 



gram, and txie SOU. at tJ s i on) an d many had given credit to those who became involv- 

 the sod that forms arOUIed at the time of the financial crash; the latter might per- 

 haps have been avoided by judgment, and perhaps a better 

 knowledge of natural history and science may have aided 

 in providing against the ravages of the grasshoppers. One 

 ^ fact I noticed, although they ate the bark from ^ saplings, 

 and consumed our corn, tobacco, etc., ate holes in clothes 

 hanging out to dry, destroyed boots and shoes when they 

 lit on them in the house, yet peas they avoided, and it 

 was an odd sight to see the field completely stripped, even 

 of the weeds, and the pea patch left undisturbed. There was 

 no turning to the right or left with them, they went hop- 

 ping on to the tune of John Brown, and they may be hop- 

 ping yet for aught I know. I only hope they will never 

 come here again. Many resolved then to keep two years 

 supply of produce on hand afterwards, but I fear most of 

 us have forgotten the good resolution made in time of dis- 

 tress, as is often the case. 0. H. Kelley. 

 Anoka Co., Minnesota, June 28, 1862. -—-».' * 



