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over twenty-five cents per head a month, for a herder. 

 For their Winter comfort, I built a sod corral, or as we call it 

 here, a Kansas barn, built on my own plan. The north side of 

 the lot was enclosed by a sod wall seventy feet long, six feet 

 in hight, with wings on each end, forty feet long. Running 

 south of them, seven feet from the wall on the inside, I set 

 crutches, eight feet out of the ground, covered with poles two 

 feet apart, and over these a coating of swamp willows, hay and 

 sod, making in all one hundred and fifty feet of good shedding, 

 very warm, being only open to the south. The north side 

 being good strong fence, feed racks are placed inside against it. 

 This barn only cost seventeen days work of two men and ten 

 days of team. 



I feed native hay, corn-fodder and millet alternate. No 

 grain, except to fresh milch cows. For my horses I have Kan- 

 sas barns, that is, sod walls all around, covered on the roof the 

 same as the corral. 



HOGS. 



1 haVe paid more attention to hogs than tb cattle, as good 

 breeds could be obtained at a less outlay for first cost, and our 

 emigrant pork market has been excellent, with good prices. 



I now raise as the best suited and most profitable in this 

 country, a cross of Berkshire and Poland China, with a slight 

 mixture of old native to bring hardiness and strength. I raise 

 about one hundred and fifty pigs a year, selling the larger half 

 to the home market as stockers, and feeding the balance. I 

 get the finest and best pigs from sows one and one-half to three 

 years old, with boars not over one and one-half years. I have 

 pens built of logs, all in a row, connecting with each other by 

 trap doors. I find millet cut in the seed to be an excellent feed 

 for stockers. Pigs from four months old up, eat it with great 

 relish, and with one feed of corn per day I think they do bet- 

 ter and grow faster than when fed on corn alone. For fatting 

 hogs, I think as we have a mill handy, that wheat, rye, barley, 

 and corn, equal parts, ground coarse and fed dry, give the best 

 results for the least money, laying on flesh and lard very fast, 



