538 WRIGHT COUNTY, MINNESOTA. 



especially if the ground is dry. The chaff seems to hold the 

 moisture, and the seed sprouts more readily than when sown 

 clean. 



This region is largely given to wheat growing. Hence I 

 have done but little in the way of improving my stock by the 

 use of blooded animals. But I realize that this matter must 

 claim immediate attention, and must take a more prominent 

 place in the farm management in the near future, or the land 

 will deteriorate from constant cropping to wheat. 



J. OAKES, 



CLEARWATER, WRIGHT COUNTY. 



A Cheap Stable and Pig Pen. 



This is my plan of cheap stable and pig pen where I stall 

 feed cattle during the Winter and utilize pigs for working the 

 waste and the manure. 



A A are the stables ten feet by forty, clear of feed boxes. 

 B B feed boxes two feet by four. C C two by four scantling 

 for car track extending from stable to corn stacks. D D 

 passage for feed car. H H two pig pens, eight by ten, built 

 with fiat roofs leaning against end of stables. X X door 

 to pig pens. K K door to stables. O pump. Water is plenti- 

 fully carried through in front of the cattle by spouts. 



Floor is only long enough for stock to stand on, and ele- 

 vated so offal will fall away from under the hind feet, which 

 after being worked and gleaned by the swine is thrown through 

 slide windows in the back of stables to the wagon and hauled 

 to the field for dressing. Some of our best and most success- 

 ful feeders have built on this plan, only they stand their 

 stock head to the outside wall of stable and feed by hand, 

 carrying the feed on the fork and putting it through drop doors 



