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Kneeland, and proceeded with its examinations in the order 
indicated below : 
MR. KNEELAND’s FARM. 
This farm is located about half a mile from the village of 
Waupun, in the County of Dodge. It consists of ninety-one 
acres, and it is about six years since Mr. K. commenced its 
cultivation. Its location is very beautiful, and the soil is of a 
superior quality of oak openings. The farm is in a good state 
of cultivation, presenting fine meadow land, splendid wheat 
fields, and a fair prospect for corn, fine potatoes and good pas¬ 
ture and woodland. The management of the farm shows good 
economy, and it will require but a short time, with Mr. K.’s 
practical industry, to make his home a sort of paradise on 
earth. The site for his dwelling and outbuildings is, hardly 
surpassed in real beauty and loveliness, by any spot within our 
knowledge ; and the splendid site has been improved by putting 
upon it remarkably tasteful and conveniently arranged buildings; 
not large and costly, but neat, economical and useful. The 
house is well arranged for making easy the duties of a farmer’s 
wife, w T hich important consideration is too often overlooked.— 
The outbuildings are also after the same style—presenting 
economy of expenditure and great practical usefulness. In 
these buildings we find a place for everything, and everything 
in its place. The barn, the horse barn, the carriage house, 
the cattle sheds, give indication of a desire to protect his ani¬ 
mals and his crops, as well as to raise them. This is a matter 
that many of our farmers greatly neglect, but we apprehend 
that almost any one would be stimulated to a right action in 
this direction by an examination of the premises of Mr. Knee- 
land. Even to the pig pen, do we find the same taste displayd* 
His arrangement for keeping hogs is so perfect, that even the 
life of a porker is rendered tolerable. 
With such a farm—such conveniences, and such means as 
Mr. Kneeland has gathered around him by dint of his own 
industry and economy—for he told us that everything we saw 
