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Never buy of tree peddlers, as they have only the cuUings from 

 some nursery, and name them to suit the purchaser. Such 

 men always claim that they represent some good nursery. My 

 apple trees have borne well for the last four years, particularly 

 in the year 1878, when I gathered six hundred bushels from 

 them. 1 prune a little in Summer, when the trees are young, 

 but rarely afterward, unless they crowd each other. The 

 enemies of the apple trees most prevalent are the rabbits, 

 which I treat to cold lead. The caterpiller, also, annoys me. 

 I destroy them. The grass mice come, but I drive them away 

 by pasturing close in the Fall. 



FARM BUILDINGS. 



My farm buildings are ample and convenient, but I do not 

 pretend that they are models. I built over two hundred feet 

 by fourteen feet, eighteen years ago, of lumber, and they do 

 good service yet. My sheds are partly open to the yards, where 

 the stock cattle run. I have a convenient barn, horse stable, 

 fat cattle stable, granary, wagon shed, hen house, piggery, etc., 

 well built and protected with evergreens for comfort. I believe 

 in good protection for myself and brutes. As I have not barn 

 room enough for all my hay, I have used a contrivance of my 

 own to stack hay with horse power, which I have greatly im- 

 proved by the use of E. L. Church & Co.'s improved Hay 

 Elevator and Carrier. I use the track carrier in the barn, and 

 and the rod carrier for stacking. 



My stacker is made of three red elm poles, two at the load 

 end of the stack, and one at the other end, The hay passes 

 up from the load thirty-five feet high to a cross bar, seven feet 

 long, fastened to the two poles; then it passes, on a rod forty - 

 five feet long, over the center of the stack, where it ought to 

 be most solid. It is guyed well and solid with fence Avire, and 

 works to a charm, making a stack over thirty feet high, twenty 

 by forty feet long. It puts a large bulk in a stack, and does 

 not spoil one-third, as is usually done by the old way. The 

 hay is also got to the stack with ease. 



