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ing them to grass and restoring the land. About five hundred 

 and fifty acres are kept for grazing cattle and sheep, principally 

 the former, of which I graze about two hundred head of differ- 

 ent ages, and about two hundred sheep. 



I raise, each year, a hundred hogs, and they use the litter 

 from the feeding cattle. This is all the stock I keep on the 

 farm. For all the various uses of a horse on the farm, I prefer 

 one weighing twelve hundred pounds, with as much thorough 

 blood as possible, so as to ensure soundness, hardiness and 

 speed. 



I keep at Home Park Place a herd of pure bred 



SHORT-HORNS. 

 I have at present thirty-five head of the following families ; 

 Miss Wileys, Doves, Maid of Thornhill, Beauties, Young Phyllis 

 and Van Meter, Red Roses or imported Young Marys, together 

 with the young bull King of the Roses, 34,254, at the head of 

 the herd. He is pure bred Kirklevington. I keep my cows 

 in good breeding condition, saving the heifers for breeding, and 

 selling them as customers need. I sell the young bulls to 

 farmers for breeding purposes, making steers of all that have 

 bad colors and such as I think are unfit for breeding purposes. 

 Occasionally I join in a public sale so as to curtail my numbers. 

 The cows are grazed during the grass season on the pastures, 

 and as Winter sets in I stable them nights and feed hay. To 

 those giving milk I feed a small allowance of grain. I make 

 use of the milk and butter in my family and sell the surplus. 



MODE OF HANDLING STEERS. 



I raise fifteen or twenty annually, and buy good grade 

 steers of my neighbors, keeping them until they are two and a 

 half or three years old. I feed the calves and yearlings in 

 Winter part hay, that is grown on the farm, allowing them 

 to run on the pastures until about the first of March, when 

 they are confined in a smaller lot and fed hay and husked corn 

 till they are turned into the pastures again, which is done about 

 the first of May. They run on the pastures and have a full 

 feed of corn in boxes once a day, if I intend to turn them off 



