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sides built of concrete, to make it fire-proof, and contains 

 feed bin, steamer, and well or cistern. There are to be 

 continuous troughs next to the thirty pens for the brood 

 sows. The pens are to be eight feet long and five feet 

 wide at outside, and in the form of shedding, and have a floor 

 made of coal tar, gravel and sand. Also a feed floor of the 

 same material. As to the arrangement of troughs and appli- 

 ances for slopping, I have not decided, but expect to get some 

 good ideas from " Model Farms." 



MARK L. HUGHS, 



OLMSTEAD, PULASKI COUNTY. 

 Winter Wheat Farm — Durham Cattle — Sheep and Hogs. 



My homestead farm contains 800 acres of land, in one 

 body. Probably the best farm in Pulaski County. I own 

 2,200 acres of other land in the same county. The house and 

 •buildings are about in the center of the homestead, from which 

 nearly £til of the farm can be seen. The land is rolling, with 

 mediuhi rich top-soil and yellow clay for sub-soil. This farm 

 has been cleared for a good many years. The oldest fields 

 are now in clover, and covered with a flock of sheep. 



Of the homestead farm, 650 acres are cleared, which at 

 present contains : 335 acres of wheat, 110 clover, 105 corn, 20 

 timothy, 20 red top, 20 orchard grass. 



The remainder of the farm, except barnyard, garden, and 

 several acres around the house, is rented, of which nearly all 

 is in corn. My dwelling is a large, two-story building, of semi- 

 modern style. My orchard is on the west of the house. The 

 barn, which is no doubt the largest in the county, is of one 

 and a half stories, the sides forming horse and cow stalls. Its 

 capacity is about seventy-five tons of hay, 3,000 bushels of 

 corn, twenty horse and twenty cow stalls, with a roadway of 

 thirty feet, extending its full length. The cows are stalled 

 singly, with no room to turn around. They are haltered. 



