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drill, putting in the seed about four inches deep, thus insuring 

 moisture for the seed, and preventing the wind from uncover- 

 ing it, as it sometimes does, when the seed is sown broadcast. 

 Oats and barley are sown in the same way, two and one-half 

 bushels of each per acre. I then finish up the plowing not done 

 in the Fall, as the corn should be planted before May tenth, 

 to insure success. As soon as it is up so that I can see the 

 rows, I start the sulky cultivator, and work the corn once a 

 week until July fourth. After that I make hay until harvest, 

 the last of July, when I harvest and stack. I use the Marsh 

 harvester and self binder, which works well. As soon as I 

 have completed the stacking, haying is again in order for two 

 or three weeks, then I thresh and plow until the ground 

 freezes — usually about the fifteenth of November — when I 

 husk corn. 



BUILDINGS. 



My buildings consist of a house, twenty by thirty feet, 

 twelve feet high, a stone milk house, twelve by fourteen feet, 

 a barn, thirty by forty feet, sixteen feet high, and cattle and 

 sheep sheds of crotches and rails, of an irregular shape, roofed 

 with hay. These last cover thirteen hundred square feet. 

 The barn is divided thus : fourteen by thirty feet of the east 

 side are given to horses, having seven stalls. In front of them 

 is the granary, eighteen by twenty-six feet, and the machinery 

 part is twelve by twenty-six feet. Over the horses is a bin 

 for holding one thousand bushels of oats ; the remainder is for 

 hay, except a small crib which I reserve for corn. 



