Excerpt from Prairie Farmer's Reliable Directory of Farmers and Breeders: St. Clair and Monroe Conties, Illinois Nobody wants a poor farm, and nobody needs to keep a poor farm. It is up to the owner to have a good one. A poor one can be made rich with proper care, and that includes the keeping of more live stock. Cattle, hogs and sheep do not quit with making the farm rich. Give them a good chance and they will pay off the mortgage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.