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are kept, are fenced with three boards below and two wires 

 above. 



SHORT-HORNS. 



For the last five years I have conducted my farm mainly 

 in the interest of stock raising. On it now may be seen a 

 small but choice herd of Short-Horn cattle, bred entirely for 

 stock purposes. The bulls I sell at about one year old, and 

 they average one hundred dollars each. My choicest heifers I 

 retain for breeders, which bring as good prices in proportion as 

 do the bulls. When will the farmer learn that it will not pay 

 to raise common cattle ? It costs very little more to raise good 

 blooded stock that readily sell for prices named. 



FEEDING CRIB. 



The above cut represents my plan for an outdoor feeding 

 crib, or rack, for feeding hay, straw, or corn to cattle. I take 

 eight posts eight feet and a half long and put them in the 

 ground two feet, in two rows fourteen feet long and four feet 

 apart. Two and a] half feet above the surface of the ground, 

 I spike to the end posts studding two by four, six feet long, so 

 that they project one foot outside the posts. Then I spike the 

 others in a line. Now lay a tight floor on this, using lumber 

 sixteen feet long (two inch plank is best). This floor projects 

 one foot outside of the posts all around. On the outside edge, 

 on top of the floor, fasten a studding two by four, lying on 

 edge. This is for hay or straw. But, if the crib is designed 

 for feeding corn, the floor should extend twenty to twenty-four 

 inches outside of posts, and should have two by six inch joists 



