DESCRIPTION OF HOG BARN. 531 



each end, and is made fast by a pin. It can be swung back 

 over the trough, crowding the hogs back, so they can not 

 get into the trough when being fed. Tlie hogs He in the outer 

 pens much of the time and only come into the feeding part to be 

 fed, so that that section is kept clean at all times. The pens are 

 connected with doors ; thus the hogs can be removed from one 

 section to another, readily. At one end of the building is a 

 shute for loading hogs into Avagons when carried to market. The 

 whole is covered with dressed stuff, painted, and has a good 

 shinoiled roof. 



JOHN WINTER, 



WESTCHESTER, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Stone Quarry — Osage — Stone Barn — Maples for Wind- 

 Breaks — Corn — Grass — Stock and Drainage. 



My farm is situated in Wasj^iington county, about ten 

 miles northwest of Washington, the county town, and four 

 miles north of AVestchester, a station on the Sigourney branch 

 of the Chicago & Rock Island and Missouri River railroad. It 

 contains eight hundred acres, of which seven hundred and 

 thirty acres are prairie, and the remainder timber, situated two 

 and a half miles from the prairie. This timber is a beautiful 

 undergrowth of oak and hickory. I have also a very valuable 

 stone quarry situated in my timber. 



My prairie land is of the richest quality of Iowa loam, 

 and is well adapted to grain or grass. One hundred and fifty 

 acres are of the finest quality of meadow land ; the remainder 

 are superior for grain or pasture — probably as good soil as 

 eastern Iowa affords. The farm is bounded by a public road 

 on the north and east, and is divided in the center by a road 

 running north and south from Wellman Station to West- 

 chester. 



The land lying west of the road is just three-fourths of a 

 mile square. That portion on the east side is one mile long 



