ILLINOIS. 



CHARLES M. CULBERTSON, 



NEWMAN, DOUGLASS COUNTY. 



A Stock Farm — Buildings — Fields — Hereford Cattle — How 

 and When to Breed — Rearing of Calves and Bulls — Por- 

 table Feed Racks for Cattle. 



HEREFORD PARK. 



My farm proper consists of two thousand acres, and as 

 shown by the plat, is subdivided into seventeen fields of eighty 

 acres each, and five of ten to forty acres each, besides several 

 smaller lots for feeding purposes. I have about twenty miles 

 of good Osage orange fence, nearly all of which will turn not 

 only cattle, but hogs. I have a natural grove of thirty acres 

 on one of my fields, also fifteen acres of black walnut trees 

 that I planted myself in 1855. They have now attained a 

 growth of from six to fifteen inches in diameter, and some of 

 them are seventy -five feet high, and are four thousand in num- 

 ber. This whole tract is in pasture or meadow. 



BUILDINGS. 



I have a horse barn forty feet square, which will stable 

 eighteen horses ; two cattle barns, which will stall one hun- 

 dred and fifty head of cattle ; also a large stable for five bulls, 

 all of which are kept in box stalls ; a building twenty-four by 

 twenty -four in which is kept the machinery for grinding and 

 preparing feed ; two cattle sheds one hundred by sixteen 

 feet, and two fifty by fourteen ; one pig-pen ten by two 

 two hundred feet long ; two tool houses ; one horse shed. All 



