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high, built at a cost of about one dollar and a quarter per rod. 

 I have seventy -five rods of board fence that cost about the same 

 per rod as the wall, and two ]iundred rods of rail fence that cost 

 about sixty-two and a half cents per rod. 



The house is of wood, twenty-eight by thirty eight feet on the 

 ground, one and a half stories in height, clap-boarded and painted 

 white on the outside, the roof covered with pine shingles, and 

 the windows shaded with green blinds. The inside is sheathed, 

 lathed, plastered, painted and papered. The low^er floor is divi- 

 ded into three rooms, a clothes press and stair way, and the cham- 

 ber is divided into two rooms with similar finish. Attached to 

 the house is a wing, eighteen by twenty-eight, a story and a half 

 high, and finished like the main building on the outside. It is 

 divided into a kitchen, pantry and w^ood-house on tlie lower 

 floor, and a large lodging room overhead. I have a cellar under 

 the main body of the house with a double wall laid in mortar, 

 that is proof against frost and rats. Under the kitchen is 

 a cistern, built of brick and water lime, of the capacity of 

 one hundred barrels, which affords an unfailing supply of soft 

 water. The cost of the buildings w^as about eight hundred 

 dollars. 



The stock barn is sixty by twenty-six feet on the ground, with 

 sixteen feet posts. It is boarded up and down with inch boards, 

 lined with lialf inch stuff, the roof covered with pine shingles. 

 Two-thirds of the low^r part is devoted to stables wdth a hall in 

 the center. The other part is formed into a carriage house. The 

 loft over the stables is used for storing hay, and that over the 

 carriage house for grain. There is a creek near the barn that is 

 used to water the stock. Tlie cost of building was about three 

 hundred dollars. There is an old barn on the place, built before 

 the form was purchased, and worth about seventy-five dollars. 



Tlie hop-house is twenty-six by thirty-six feet, with fourteen 

 feet posts, clapboarded with pine on the outside, and the roof 

 shingled. One half of the upper part is used for a store-house, 

 and the other half for a kiln to dry hops. 



The kihi is lathed and plastered on the sides. Over head 

 joists run across the building every three feet; these are covered 

 with slats two inches wide, one and a quarter thick, placed two 

 inches apart and running towards the store room, and covered 



