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first one was built by Robert Peeples, at Shawneetown, prior to 

 1825, in which Gen. Lafayette was entertained on his last visit 

 to the United States, in June, 1825. In my boyhood my 

 father drove his cattle to Nashville, Tenn., Huntsville, Ala., 

 and Louisville, Ky., to market, and slaughtered his hogs at 

 Shawneetown, where they were either sold or packed in a 

 flat-boat and marketed to the planters along the Mississippi 

 river and its lower tributaries. This much I have said 

 concerning the country and markets. 



My house, as originally built, was a two story brick of 

 four rooms, cellar full size of the main building, a one 

 story porch in front, and a one story . kitchen at north end, 

 with porch covering cellar door and under which I dug 

 and cemented a small cistern for washing purposes. I have 

 since removed the old kitchen and built one two stories high, 

 constructing in front of it and the main building a two-story 

 porch, which includes the cistern and cellar door. My 

 barn is frame, 44x54 feet, with floor 31x34 feet, a part 

 of which forms the gangway through the barn ; the stab- 

 ling taking up the remainder of the ground. Hay mows 

 above and on each side of the gangway. I feed all 

 stock kept in the barn from the floor. My grain bins are on 

 the ground floor of the barn ; my corn cribs are a lean-up 

 against the north end, with an entry between it and the 

 main barn, floored on a l^vel with main floor, and a gangway 

 between grain bins, connecting with entry in front of corn 

 crib doors. My horses and mules are kept generally in the 

 barn ; also the milch cows, which are good grade cattle, bred 

 out of and from the best Short Horns from Ross County, Ohio, 

 and the blue grass region of Kentucky. I do not keep many, 

 and am very much troubled with calves from poor bulls run- 

 ning in the range. I use horses and mules for work animals ; 

 mules the heaviest and best I can procure. My horses, good 

 roadsters, are a cross between the Morgan and English draught 

 horse, Morgan prevailing, making animals of fair size and good 

 action. I have for a few years kept a small flock of sheep. 

 Southdown crossed with natives and a few Merinoes, and am 

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