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have attractive features. We decided to make 

 it of dark red paving brick. It was to be eighteen 

 feet by thirty, with two rooms on the ground. 

 The first, or south room, ten feet by eighteen, was 

 fitted for storing fruit, and afforded a stairway 

 to the rooms above, which were four in number 

 besides the bath. The larger room was of course 

 the butter factory, and was equipped with up- 

 to-date appliances, aerator, Pasteurizer, cooler, 

 separator, Babcock tester, swing churn, butter- 

 worker, and so on. The house was to have steep 

 gables and projecting eaves, with a window in 

 each gable, and two dormer windows in each 

 roof. The walls were to be plastered, and the 

 ground floor was to be cement. It cost $1375. 



As motive power for the churn and separator, 

 a two-sheep-power treadmill has proved entirely 

 satisfactory. It is worked by two sturdy wethers 

 who are harbored in a pleasant house and run, 

 close to the power-house, and who pay for their 

 food by the sweat of their brows and the wool 

 from their backs. They do not appear to dis- 

 like the "demnition grind," which lasts but an 

 hour twice a day ; they go without reluctance to 

 the tramp that leads nowhere, and the futile 

 journey which would seem foolish to anything 

 wiser than a sheep. This sheep-power is one of 

 the curios of the place. My grand-girls never 

 lose their interest in it, and it has been photo- 

 graphed and sketched more times than there are 

 fingers and toes on the sheep. 



