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To the SOWS and pigs I feed meal mixed in water, to my 

 calves I feed it dry. 



In raising and feeding stock, I find that the besti)red cattle 

 and hogs are decidedly the most profitable. It therefore be- 

 hooves every man engaged in stock raising, to breed as good 

 stock as his means will possibly afford. I have learned by experi- 

 ence that it pays best to maintain good, hog-tight fences, allow- 

 ing shoats to run at will over cattle pastures ; provide comfort- 

 able shelter for stock, keep them fully supplied with an abundance 

 of fresh, sweet, and clean water ; have good, strong gates, prop- 

 erly hung, instead of bars ; stack up all the hay raised in sheds, 

 accessible for the cattle to feed at all times. Have corn cribs 

 so arranged and constructed that stock can be fed under cover, 

 and that no grain or hay is wasted in mud by out-door expos- 

 ure. 



FEEDING SHEDS. 



My main cattle sheds are 350 feet long, and twenty-six feet 

 wide by eighteen feet high. One division is sixty feet long ; 

 this is a hay shed, proper, and the cattle are fed standing on the 

 outside. The cattle are kept out by bolting 2-10 plank at a suit- 

 able hight, over which they reach and draw out the hay 

 as it io cnrown down. The second division is 125 feet 

 long. The cattle go under this part and have hay thrown from 

 above into racks placed on the inside of the building. The third 

 division is fifty feet long. This has a corn crib on one side 

 that will hold 1,800 bushels of corn. The floor of the crib ex- 

 tends one and a half feet and makes a manger to feed the corn, 

 which is let out of the crib by little doors. This plan saves 

 the trouble of twice handling the grain. On the opposite side 

 from the crib is a manger that contains sheaf-oats and hay, let 

 down from overhead. The fourth division is 115 feet long:. 

 Mangers are placed along one side to feed corn. This shed is 

 also used for shelter. One hundred head of cattle can com- 

 fortably feed and obtain shelter in these series of sheds. The 

 total cost of construction was about $800, The corn crib is 



