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The corn house is twenty-five feet square and ten feet high. I 

 have also a warehouse, twenty-five feet from the kitchen door, 

 sixteen feet square, eight feet high ; a meat-house sixteen by 

 eighteen feet, ten feet high ; an ice-house ten feet by twelve 

 feet, eight feet deep from the surface of the ground. My smoke 

 house is eight by nine feet, eight feet high. These buildings 

 are all of pine, with pine-shingle roofs, and, with the exception 

 of the corn crib and ice-house, are weather boarded with pine 

 siding, and painted. The meat-house I was compelled to use 

 this season to store wheat in. 



For all of my work on the farm I use the best modern im- 

 proved farming implements. With the design of storing them, 

 I hauled from my timber tract, some three miles away, a 

 sufficient quantity of posts to build a shelter. The larger ones 

 were from ten to fifteen inches, mean diameter, and from twelve 

 to eighteen feet in length. Of these I built the framework of 

 a shed thirty feet wide by sixty feet long. The uprights I sunk 

 four and a half feet in the ground. I left the tops forked, and 

 strung heavy poles along from post to post, covering these, 

 transversely, with lighter hickory, elm, oak, and other poles. 



When I threshed I had the straw thrown over this struc- 

 ture. Thus, with no pecuniary outlay, and with my own labor, 

 I have a warm, dry shelter for every farming implement used 

 on my place, from a garden hoe to a reaper and binder. I may 

 add that this building is only for temporary use, as in the com- 

 ing season I have plans to build a bank barn forty by seventy. 



FRUIT AND OTHER TREES. 



In the lot west and south of the house, about four thousand 

 budded and grafted fruit trees are growing, which comprise the 

 best varieties of fruits common to our climate — apples, peaches, 

 pears, apricots, cherries, and plums. I have one acre in small 

 fruits, such as grapes trellised on posts and wired, currants, 

 blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries and strawberries. 



I planted in one lot of two acres in the Spring of 1878, 

 several bushels of peach stones, which I had saved from the 

 previous year. These I planted in rows seven feet apart, the 



