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opens to the south. Underneath this the cattle receive their 

 hay from above, in well-adjusted racks, with a box four feet 

 wide iu front, to catch their droppings. Thus neither man, 

 cattle, nor hay are exposed to the weather. 



The cattle pass in and out at will. In these lofts, which 

 are fourteen by twenty feet wide and one hundred and ninety 

 feet long, the hay is stored. 



To the west of this is the stud-barn, 34x55 feet, in which 

 the Fairbanks' scales are used in the purchase of grain and sale 

 of stock; there is also a mill room, where formerly grain was 

 ground by steam, but now only cob meal is made for the sheep 

 and cattle. The north end of this building is a dwelling house 

 occupied by the shepherd. In the south end are the quarters 

 of the stallions and bulls, among which are " Newsy " and 

 " Woodland," direct descendants of " Lexington," and victors 

 in many hotly contested races. " Calhoun " by " Mambrino 

 Chief" and "Ben Franklin" by "Whalebone Knox," are 

 good trotters who will yet be heard from; and "Diligence " 

 and " Diligence jr.," noble specimens of the French Norman 

 are here also. Each horse has a box stall, with a lot attached, 

 in which he has a free run when off dut}'. The upper story is 

 filled with hay. Horse forks are used in handling the hay, in 

 all these barns, and the fields are supplied with a tedder and 

 loader. Contiguous to the stud-barn are the sheep folds, con- 

 sisting of four corrals, each two hundred feet square, enclosed 

 by a five foot picket fence, and covered on the north by tight- 

 roof sheds, fourteen feet span. 



All communicate by gates and lead to a yard used for catch- 

 ing, subdividing and counting, the egress from which is a narrow 

 shute, fourteen inches wide and twelve feet long. The outlet 

 is closed by a gate hinged in the center, and a little beyond 

 the opening, so that as fast as they pass through the shute the 

 shepherd can divide the sheep into two lots, without catching 

 any of them. In the center, and where the four corners of the 

 corrals join, there is a well, in which is a pump worked by an 

 "Eclipse" windmill. The water is forced into a tank set 

 under the fence which divides the two north corrals ; the over- 



