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coming two years old. I think keeping steers until they are 

 four years old, and then feeding them, as some farmers do, will 

 be a thing of the past in a few years. 



HORSES. 



In regard to horses, I consider a twelve hundred pound 

 horse, or thereabout, the horse for general farm work. My 

 mares weigh about one thousand pounds each, and I put them 

 to a horse weighing fourteen or fifteen hundred pounds, thereby 

 obtaining a horse that will do either farm work or driving. 



SHEEP. 



T consider sheep raising the most profitable business a man 

 can enter into. In 1879, I made about one hundred per cent, 

 on mine, with graded ewes and Cotswold buck. 



HOGS. 



In hogs, I have had the greatest success by crossing Berk- 

 shires and Poland Chinas. 



E. T. BROCKWAY, 



AIXSVv'ORTH, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Landscape Gardening — Hedges^ Evergreens — Stock Hogs^ 

 and Their Management — Artichokes — Hay Stacker. 



PINE GROVE FARM. 



I do not claim to own a model farm, or to be capable 

 of making or possibly even managing one, but I do claim that 

 mine is the best I could make by thirteen and a half years 

 toiling with hand and brain, at the same time having to strive 

 hard to keep the wolf from the door, pay my debts, school my 

 children, and provide my family with the necessary comforts 

 of life. I have always thought that if there is a place 

 on earth where a man should see real, unalloyed pleasure, it is 

 at his own fireside. Here, surrounded by wife and children, 



