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and fed crushed corn and bran, together with pumpkins 

 during the Fall of the year. The horses and mules are fed in 

 long troughs, with hay racks extending the full length of their 

 portion of the barn. I have but three horses ; all other work- 

 ing stock being mules of large size. 



SHEEP. 



The wood-pasture, leading from the barnyard, contains a 

 large artificial pond, which is filled by a brook running from 

 the northern part of the farm. From the barn one enters the 

 sheep house, which is of good size, with a rack extending the 

 full length of the building about ten feet in hight. The 

 building is one and a half stories high, and made so that it can 

 be lengthened at any time. Its capacity, with side sheds, is 

 400 sheep, without discomfort. I have a flock of 300 head at 

 the present, 200 ewes and 100 wethers, but it is my desire to 

 obtain a flock of 500 ewes, which I consider large enough for a 

 farm of this size, the product of which will be marketed 

 every year, selling the old ewes and breeding from young and 

 pure stock. I breed from two full blooded rams, they being of 

 the Leicester and Lincoln stock, which I think are best for 

 market and are most suited for this part of the State. I cross 

 with the best of common stock of my own selection. In my 

 present flock I have a good many young ewe lambs that are 

 fine specimens of the cross, and a few that resemble the pure 

 Lincoln stock. 



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My cattle are the Durham. I have five large cows of 

 three-fourths blooded Durham, with tliirteen yearling calves of 

 same blood, mostly heifers, which are of fine size and good 

 shape. In the pasture are seventy head of cattle, all but 

 about twenty head good common steers. They are large 

 and in good order, and will weigh about 1,150 lbs. gross. My 

 stock of hogs consists of 150 head. I use a two-year old Po- 

 land China boar, of large size, standing two and a half feet 

 high, and weighing about 190 pounds, he being in thin flesh. 

 Among the brood sows are quite a large number of Berkshires. 



