G4 SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



twenty-five cows. Give the calves most of the milk in Sum- 

 mer, and make butter in Winter, which sells in Springfield at 

 from twenty-five to thirty cents per pound. Cows are pastured 

 as much of the time as possible. In Winter are kept in barn 

 cellar by night, fed morning and evening, and turned out by 

 day. Females that prove good at the pail are sold for milch 

 cows ; others for beef. The males not used for breeding pur- 

 poses, are castrated, and sold generally off grass, in Jul}', at two 

 years old. Sometimes are fed on grass. Usually weigh from 

 1,200 to 1,400 pounds. Calves, both sexes, are stanchioned 

 first Winter, and fed ha}' and one gallon crushed corn each per 

 day. Yearling males, as well as twos, are fed outside, with 

 hay, when cheap, or corn fodder and straw, together with 

 some cut or crushed corn. 



HORSES. 



As young horses are broken, the old are sold off. I raise only 

 enough to do the farm work, breeding for medium size, good 

 wind and action, such as are properly classed as horses for all 

 work. The only pure blooded breed with which I am acquaint- 

 ed \s the Cleveland Bay. 



SHEEP. 



I am breeding Cotswolds. But few, as yet, recorded. 

 Have about 100 head breeding. For several years have sold 

 all the rams for breeding purposes at $10 per head. Tail 

 out the ewes every Fall and sell to breeder or butcher, 

 whichever will pay the highest prices. Sheep run on pasture all 

 the time. Feed nearly one bushel corn per head, during 

 Winter and lambing season, or its equivalent in oats. Feed 

 hay, if grass is very short, and when ground is covered with 

 sleet. Never shelter, except in cold, rainy, or sleety weather, 

 and during lambing, at which time every care must be taken ; 

 and it will then pay to keep a man with the ewes night and day. 



HOW I MANAGE MY SWINE. 



I keep from fifteen to twenty breeding sows ; two families, 

 each headed by a good male. Breeding stock all recorded in 



