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twenty dollars per month. The labor of married men I find 

 cheaper and more reliable than that of single men, who are 

 here to-day and gone to-morrow. 



THE FAFvM BUILDINGS 



proper and the yards contiguous cover about ten acres, and 

 are situated on the north branch of White Clay creek. The 

 dwelling house has already been spoken of. The primitive 

 barn, built in 1858, still stands. It is twenty by sixty feet, 

 and is used for horses, the storage of tools, and workshop, and 

 has an ample loft for hay. 



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Near this is a stone basement barn, forty by sixty-five 

 feet, in which sixty head of cattle and horses can be stabled, 

 leaving the upper stories for grain and hay. Adjoining this, 

 on the northwest corner, is a hay and cattle barn, twenty feet 

 wide, which runs north forty feet, west eighty feet, and south 

 one hundred and fifty feet, forming a hollow square, which 



