542 HOUSTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA. 



two hundred volumes of agricultural, scientific and literary 

 •works. 



THE RESULT. 



Twenty-three years have passed, and I now have 

 ample buildings for a farm of this size, viz: a frame dwelling 

 house for a family of ten persons, with stone cellar twenty by 

 thirty-four feet underneath ; a barn, twenty by thirty feet, of 

 two stories with stone basement of same size underneath, used 

 as a stable for cows in Winter. I have a poultry house and 

 pig-pen ; greenhouse, fourteen by fifty feet, and a neat frame 

 building, sixteen by twenty-four, used as a museum and 

 cabinet, with an addition for storing hot-bed sash, tools, boxes, 

 etc., when not in use. 



WATERING FACILITIES. 



I have wells and cisterns providing an ample supply of 

 water. I have at present ten or twelve acres planted to fruit 

 trees, chiefly apple ; two and a half acres in grape vines, one 

 acre in full bearing, and one-half of the remainder to be 

 in beasring next season ; one acre of raspberries, three-fourths 

 of them Black Caps : one acre of strawberries ; one-half 

 acre of currants ; same of asparagus ; and about fifteen acres 

 devoted to the growing of vegetables for market, and corn and 

 roots for stock. About one acre is occupied with buildings 

 and yards, and about seven acres still remain unimproved, being 

 well timbered with a young growth of oak, the thinnings of 

 which I use for fuel, grape stakes and bean poles. 



STOCK. 



I keep one span of horses, four cows, four hogs, and from 

 fifty to one hundred hens. I feed stock from forage produced 

 upon my place, adding about five tons of ha}', and a few tons 

 of bran and shorts. This amount of stock furnishes about all 

 the manur«e required to keep the land in good condition for the 

 kind of crops I raise, and for the construction of hot beds, with 

 the addition of about one hundred loads procured in the village 

 a mile distant, and which I haul in the Winter. My horses I 

 stall the whole year, and feed them during the Summer upon 



