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 diminished at least 10 bushels per acre, by the grass-| 

 hoppers, who eat off the heads, the ground being literally covered with 

 grain, and the sod at the time of plowing this fall, was very much like 

 the sod that forms around where a threshing machine has been used. 



