6 DOUGLASS COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



these buildings are shingled and painted. The dwelling house 

 is one story, eighteen by seventy-six. 



There are three orchards of over one thousand bearing 

 trees, twenty-one wells of water, curbed in good shape, one 

 hundred and ten gates of various kinds, and eight feed lots. 



STOCK. 



I have sixty-nine head of full-blood Hereford cattle, two 

 hundred and forty head of half-blood Hereford cows, bulls, and 

 calves, and about two hundred head of grade Short-Horns, 

 consisting of cows and heifers ; and thirty head of Essex hogs. 



In ray stock are five very fine bulls, three of which I keep 

 for my own use, having imported them in the Fall of 1879. One, 

 Anxiety, I consider an exceptionally fine animal, so named 

 from the fact that the mother was lost in giving it birth. The 

 other two imported animals are Sir Garnet, a yearling, out of 

 the famous cow Spangle, got by Tredegar Second. I have 

 also nine cows imported, which are also highly bred. I con- 

 •sider the cross of Herefords with Short-Horn grades the best 

 for meat producing qualities, outside of full-bloods. 



I "first raised horses, mules, and some hogs, with but mod- 

 erate results. I next went into breeding Short-Horns, but 

 found that they were not able to rough it satisfactorily. I 

 then crossed this breed with the Herefords, and secured an ani- 

 mal that I am satisfied can easily live upon grass and at the 

 same time give the most satisfactory results. This cross, as 

 yearlings, have found a ready sale, by the car-load, to go to the 

 plains. 



BREEDING. 



My experience in breeding is that the animals should 

 couple during the' months of June, July, and August, thereby 

 calving in the following March, April, and May, when the 

 mother can almost immediately go on grass, giving the best 

 flow of milk ; this at the same time brings the calves into better 

 condition for wintering. Again, the calves, weaning soon 

 enough, get a chance at the grass before going into Winter 

 quarters. I feed to them, in troughs, hay, with a little corn 



