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ing boxes. There should also be a row of sleeping pens for 

 hogs, made ten feet square or a little less, with open entrances. 

 This will prevent their huddling together in large masses to 

 sleej), in cold nights, and consequently from cooling off too 

 quickly in the morning, thereby causing lung-fever and death. 

 The feeding boxes should be made ten feet long, six feet wide, 

 and eight inches deep, and should stand on legs that are two 

 and a half feet high. No matter how many cracks or holes 

 there may be in them, as it is the hogs' business to pick up all 

 the corn that drops. There should be one of these boxes for 

 every eight head of cattle. 



A GOOD HAY RACK. 



I made a good hay-rack, which has stood for several years, 

 in this manner : I took rails ten feet long, and some large wire. 

 Made the rack four feet wide at the bottom, seven feet wide 

 at the top, and over one hundred feet long. I set a center row 

 of rails in the ground eight feet apart, lay a rail on the ground 

 crosswise close to each and wire ; another rail in the middle, one 

 foot from the top of the upright. I stand up two cross-rails thus 

 X for braces, and two more rails for corners, four feet apart at. 

 the Ijottom, and seven feet at the top. This represents the end 

 of crxh section of eight feet. 



Now lay a rail lengthwise on the cross-rail on the ground, 

 and another one on the top cross-rail, and also one in the forks 

 where the brace crosses the upright. This should be about 

 two and a half feet from the ground. Then stand up rails on 

 the inside, two feet apart. Wire them fast in three places. 

 Extend it any desired length. Wire every intersection, and it 

 will stand as long as the timber lasts. Feed steers that are 

 two and three years old, and hogs of all ages. 



FEEDING STOCK. 



Farmers here feed from twenty-five to two hundred and 

 fifty steers and an equal number of hogs together. Feed 

 lightly at first, and after they are accustomed to it, always 

 keep corn in the ear in the boxes. Don't neglect to keep salt 

 and ashes where cattle and hogs can have access to it, and also 



