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It has been their hahit for many years to put in a large 

 area of sowed corn, which was cut and put up for curing 

 in stocks, and afterwards housed or stacked near the 

 barns. This year they have a larger area than usual, a 

 large part of which they put down in pits for winter 

 feeding. This matter of pitting or ensilaging corn 

 fodder has been carefully investigated by them, and they 

 have made, this year, two pits under the cow-barn floor. 

 These pits, figure 12, are twenty-two feet long, nine feet 

 wide, and fifteen and a half feet deep, side by side, with 

 a two-foot wall between them. They are walled all 



Fig. 13. FLOOR PLAN OF BARN, CATTLE STABLES, ETC. 



around, and cemented water-tight. They would answer 

 well as cisterns. These two are just built, but there is 

 an old one, ten feet wide, fifty feet long, and seven feet 

 deep, which is under the feeding floor.- The location of 

 these pits is shown in the accompanying plan,, figure 13. 

 The cow-barn is one hundred and twenty feet long, by 

 thirty feet wide. The feeding floor is ten feet wide, and 

 the standing space for the cows is the same width on 

 each side. There is room for thirty-six cows in this 

 stable, up to the barn floor. The floor, the stalls, and all, 

 from side to side, was taken up for the filling of the pits, 

 but was relaid. 



At the time I was there the work of filling was going 



