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1857, and has never been ploughed; too wet for anything but a grass crop in 
anything like a wet season: intend underdraining. 
I860.;. Pasture. 
Lot No. 17—12 Acres. Running Water. 
This field is natural meadow or hay marsh; was surrounded on the sides 
with a four foot open ditch in 1847, which neither improved the quantity or 
quality of the grass; intend at some future day, to try the experiment of 
underdraining every sixteen feet, leading to the river. 
Lot No. 18—65 Acres. Running Water. 
Woodland, mostly white oak timber. Never lias been cut from except for 
hewing timber, till the past winter. 
MR. PEFFER’S FARM. 
This farm is located in the town of Pewaukee, in Waukesha 
county. It consists of eighty acres, and presents almost 
every variety: high land and low land, good land and poor 
land, dry land and wet land; but under the skillful treatment 
of Mr. Peffer, who has a strong arm and a willing hand, the 
different elements will be made to subserve each other, until, 
in a short time, the whole will present a noble specimen of the 
results of honest toil, skillfully directed. This man, Peter, as 
he is familiarly called, is a German by birth, having immigrated 
to this country when fourteen years of age. He became a car¬ 
penter and joiner, which trade he followed several years, with 
reasonable success, when, in 1845, all of his earnings were 
destroyed by fire, leaving him to begin anew ; but being able 
bodied and industrious, the struggles with the world without 
means, had no terrors for him. He went on, following his 
trade and farming alternately, according to circumstances, until 
now he presents a farm in competition with the best farms in 
the State. 
While this farm does not present the attractions of some oth¬ 
ers, the committee derived sincere pleasure and satisfaction, 
and we may add, profit, from visiting it. Mr. Peffer is reclaim¬ 
ing the marshes by the draining; improving the upland by 
hauling the low lands upon it—growing hedges for his perma¬ 
nent fences; in fact, he has his plans fully matured, and most 
of them in a state of progress that in a short time will convert 
