^08 U\LL COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 



milcli cows. My stock is herded from the first of May until 

 the first of November, at an expense of one dollar per head, 

 when they are taken liome to the farm and are allowed during 

 tlie day to run at large in tlie cornfields and to straw-stacks. 

 During nights they are corraled, and are eitlier left in a large 

 straw-yard or are taken into the shed-yard, which is supplied 

 with a good substantial shed one hundred feet in length and 

 twenty feet wide, and a manger fifty feet long, with a capacity 

 of two tons of hay. Here they get all the liay they will eat at 

 night, and are prevented from trampling the hay under foot. 

 I feed on an average about one ton of hay per head during 

 the Winter months, and in addition, corn or ground food to 

 steers intended for market, as also to the milch cows. 



I keep enough hogs for home supply, and only a few to 

 spare, — about ten or twelve. 



HEDGES. 



• ^ Formerly my plantations were surrounded partly by a 

 board oT rail fence, the place of which, to a great extent, is 

 now taken by live hedges of white or gray willow, that not 

 only afford protection against trespassing stock, but also serve 

 as windbreaks, and furnish every five years an abundance of 

 fuel and fencing material. I am now at work to inclose ]ny 

 entire farm with live hedges, and the greater part of this labor 

 is already accomplished. 



BUILDINGS. 



As to my buildings, they are either built of cotton wood 

 logs and framed over with boards, or they are ordinary frames. 

 They consist of (see plan) : 



a— Dwelling house, one and one-half stories high, sixteen by twenty feet 

 with a room attached of ten by thirteen feet, built of logs and frauiei over, 



1>— Barn, combiniDg granary, horse-stable, and machine and bugg^-.shed, 

 twenty by sixty feet, and built out of extra heavy cotlonwood logs (f>vi-mcr]y 

 serving as a f.irtification against the attacks of hosti!-c Indians), framed over 

 with boards, the lofl affording room for seven tons of hay. 



c— Work-shop, a log building, fourteen by eighteen feet, -with a carpen- 

 ter's workbench and tools, serving also as a place to store agricultural imple- 

 ments. 



