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few winter apples. The girls, two of them are getting 

 breakfast, and the others are in the cow yard. 



Now let us accompany father, who is almost as fond 

 of his cows as his girls, and take a look at them. Cer- 

 tainly they are a beautiful herd, all red, with fine Devon 



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points, gentle and good milkers. Two sides of the yard 

 are fenced with a very high stone wall, and the other two 

 by the barn and long shed, capable of sheltering forty or 

 fifty head of cattle. The center of the yard is a basin, 

 which is kept constantly filled with muck, sods, weeds, 

 and all sorts of trash capable of making manure, or sav- 

 ing it by absorption. 



A New England Barn. — Now let us look into the most 

 important building upon every farm. It is 40 by 60 feet 

 and 18 feet high. This door opens into a stable 40 feet 

 long and 14 wide, provided with stanchions, which hold 

 the heads of the cows in winter; each one of which is so 

 trained as to know her place, and walk up to it as orderly 

 as the well trained horse, which occupies a box at one 

 end of the stable. Two great folding doors open upon 

 both sides of the barn, so that a load of hay can be driven 



