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very best of either, but, as it is impossible to combine the two 

 extremes in any one breed, and as I am doing about equal 

 amounts of business in butter and beef, I am inclined to think 

 that it would hardly pay me to change, except perhaps to 

 increase the Short-Horn blood. 



FEEDING STABLE. 



I have a stone basement stable for my cows, that never 

 freezes except in extreme cold weather. It is well ventilated 

 and dry. My feeding cattle are kept in a yard, with dry, 

 warm sheds, open to the south, in which the hay is fed. I 

 feed the corn in boxes outside, which are continually accessible, 

 and they have also plenty of pure water. 



DAIRY. 



For butter making, I have the modern improvements of a 

 creamery attached to the north end of my dwelling house, 

 with a water tank twenty inches deep for setting milk, through 

 which I can pass a continuous current of cold water for deep 

 setting in cans. Not having any living water on my farm, I 

 was obliged to procure it by artificial means. I succeeded in 

 getting an abundance of water, at a depth of ninety feet, on 

 an elevation of ground near my buildings. 



WATER. 



I raise the water by wind power, into a reservoir, built of 

 stone, and covered with earth, below the reach of frost, with 

 a capaoity of six hundred barrels. From this, by means of 

 pipes, the water is conducted into my house, creamery, barn, 

 hog-house, yard, and two pasture fields, all of which, except 

 the two pasture fields, are secured from frost. The troughs in 

 the barn and yard are also built of stone, impervious to frost, 

 and self-regulating, by means of a float valve. This arrange- 

 ment is ample to supply all the water needed on the farm, and 

 my fences are so arranged that the stock from every field can 

 have easy access to it. This water arrangement cost me 

 between ten and twelve hundred dollars. 



