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trees on the north, and an equal amount of young cottonwoods 

 on the west. Adjoining this main cattle yard on the south, is 

 a commodious yard for stacking hay and straw. In the shelter 

 afforded by these stacks, are the calf lots. These are provided 

 with racks, built along the fence, and convenient to the hay 

 rick. In these lots also, there are the necessary troughs where 

 the calves get their daily allowance of corn or oats, and where 

 also they are salted. These yards are provided with a sufficient 

 amount of board sheds into which the calves can go at will, 

 and be protected from the rain or Winter storms. Under the 

 same roof is a room about twelve feet square, which is used as 

 a Winter nest by ray brood sows, who have the run of an 

 adjoining lot of six or eight acres. This lot is watered by a 

 small branch, but, as this at times makes a very muddy or icy 

 watering place, oft-times dangerous for cattle in the Winter 

 season, I have a well on the same lot provided Avith a pump, 

 windmill, and suitable tank, which affords a constant supply of 

 good water, at all times easy of access to man and beast. 

 Near this well I have a feed lot where steers and hogs are 

 fatted for the market. This lot is also provided with necessary 

 sheds to afford the cattle and hogs a retreat from the cutting 

 Kansas winds. The yard is also furnished with feed boxes into 

 which the corn is usually thrown with the husks still on. This 

 is almost their exclusive feed, and there are many farmers who 

 do not give their fattening cattle any hay at all while feeding 

 snapped corn. A great deal of whole corn passes through 

 stock fed in this way, but here the hog steps in, and proves a 

 very economical animal where this mode of feeding cattle is 

 practiced. I find, in my experience, that where twenty steers 

 are fed in this way, about thirty hogs will get very fat with a 

 very small amount of extra grain. This feed lot is supplied 

 with water from the well, conveyed into a tank by underground 

 pipes. Attached to this tank I have a watering trough, of 

 my own invention, for hogs, which is without a patent, and 3-efc 

 answers a good purpose. It is simply a plank trough about 

 one foot wide, over which there is a strong lid, fastened down 

 with iron hooks. This lid is full of holes just large enough to 



