(570 WINNEBAGO COUNTY, WISCONSIN. 



farm can carry now than at first, and yet keep up the number 

 of acres of grain. 



SUPPLYING WATER. 



I raise water for the stock by a wind-mill, and store it in 

 a large tank, over which there is a house to protect it from 

 freezing. In this house, by the side of the large tank, is a 

 small tank on a level with the many watering troughs in and 

 about the barns, Avhich I keep for the use of the stock. 



In the small tank floats a hollow copper ball, which draws 

 water as the stock drink, and the connecting pipes from the 

 small tank to the watering troughs are laid below frost, so there 

 is a constant supply of water at all times. I think I have a 

 complete system of watering stock from wells. 



MY BARN. 



My barn has a frontage of two hundred and sixty-two 

 feet, and Avith the addition of the three wings it has a length 

 of six hundred and fourteen feet, and contains two hundred 

 and eighty thousand feet of pine lumber. I have stabling for 

 one thousand sheep, one hundred and thirty head of cattle and 

 horses, and hay to Winter them on, with barn room for four 

 thousand bushels of unthreshed grain. The cold Winters 

 make stabling desirable for stock, while the cheap lumber of 

 this locality pays better in barns than wet stacks of hay and 

 grain. 



MY HOUSE. 



My dwelling house is commodious, built in the most 

 approved manner, and yet at a moderate cost. The main road 

 leading north from the city passes through the center of my 

 farm, and is one of the finest graveled roads in the West. It 

 is bordered on each side with rows of maple trees, and is one 

 of the finest drives to be found in any rural district. 



