Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 230]

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18. FENCES.—Material preferred: cost per rod, and cost of keeping up hedge, board and rail fences: value of hedges for protection: is it cheaper to fence out stock than to keep them up ? 19. Capital per acre required for good farming ?

Thirty-four answers were received, which are arranged according to latitude, beginning with the northernmost counties, for facility in comparing the opinions of those in the same latitude. Answers were received from the following persons:

E. Moss, Belvidere, Boone county; Geo. Chaffee, Belvidere, Boone county; M. A. McConnel, Richmond, McHenry county; Asa Baley, Lindenwood, Ogle county; Silas Reynolds, Aurora, Kane county; D. C. Scofield, Elgin, Kane county; Joseph Tefft, Elgin, Kane county ; H. Pierce, Moline, Rock Island county ; Jacob Schoen leber, Allen, LaSalle county; Charles E. Barney, Providence, Bureau county; Verry Aldrich, Tiskilwa, Bureau county ; Adam Rankin, Monmouth, Warren county5 George W, Minier, Mackinaw, Tazewell county ; James Robinson, Tremont, Tazewell county; John R. Tull, Pontoosuc, Hancock county; Thos. Gregg, Hamilton, Hancock county ; A. C. Hammond, Warsaw, Hancock county ; Harvey Sodowsky, Indianola, Yermilion county; William M. Allen, Mt. Pulaski, Logan county ; Samuel P. Boardman, Lincoln, Logan county ; B. Sweet, Tuscola ; George Harding, Bloomfield, Edgar county ; G. W. Yaughan, Sullivan, Moultrie county ; Sylvester Butler, Majority Point, Cumberland county; W. F. Bliss, N'okomis, Montgomery county; D. Gove, Carlinville, Macoupin county; J. G. Swann, Elsah, Jersey county; E. A. Riehl, Alton, Madison county ; John Balsiger, Highland, Madison county; J. Y. Bothwell, Clay City, Clay county ; Theodore Engelman, Mascoutah, St. Clair county; George C. Eisenmeyer, Mascoutah, St. Clair county; Joseph Barber, Richview, Washington county ; Joseph Warder, Yienna, Johnson county.

The following statements, in answer to the first and second queries, show the conditions of farming which call out the differing opinions.

1. What is the location of your farm by section, township and range* its distance from market town, or shipping point ? E. Moss.—One mile south of Belvidere. G. Chaffee.—Two and one-half miles from depot at Belvidere. M. A. McGonnell.—One-half mile from Richmond Station. Asa Baley.—Six miles from Rochelle, fourteen from Rockford, H. Pierce.—One-half mile from Moline, three from Rock Island, four Davenport. Joseph Tefft.—Five miles west from Aurora on the C B. and Q. R. R. J. Schoerdeber.—Location of farm: section 9, township 31, range 5, southeast quarter, eleven miles from canal and railroad In Seneca. V. Aldrich.—Location of farm: section 23, township 15 north, range 1 east, 4th principal meridian. Distance from shipping points: from Hennepin, on Illinois river, five miles; Henry, on Illinois river, thirteen miles; Tiskilwa, on Chicago, Rock from