684 LA FAYETTE COUNTY, WISCONSIN. 



enoiigli liigher to make it pay. Always give full measure. A 

 small sized package rouncled up, will always sell better than 

 tlic same quantity in a large package. Always supply the home 

 market, and by saving freights and commission you will find j^our 

 net profits better than on shipments. In picking apples, do it 

 as soon as the variety begins to fall from the effects of ripen- 

 ing. Handle as carefully as you would eggs. 



Always remember that the best market is the home mar- 

 ket. I refer now to the family. Plenty of fruit means very 

 few pills. 



JAMES W. TRESTRAIL, 



SEYMOUR, LA FAYETTE COUNTY. 



Hog Pen — Sheep Shed — Racks — Dairying. 



* DESCRIPTION OF HOG PEN. 



My best hog pen is made on the following jilan : The 

 building is sixteen by fort}-. One-half of its entire length is 

 covered by a shingle roof, for the sleeping places. This 

 is divided into four apartments, calculated to accommodate 

 comfortably from eight to ten hogs in each. The other 

 half, in front of the sleeping places, is about four feet 

 high, and is boarded close. Between each apartment is a 

 sliding door (up and down), also one at each end. When the 

 ground has a little fall, the upper end is most convenient for 

 driving into, and the lower end for loading up for market, by 

 backing the wagon right up. It is built on rock pillars, but 

 where rock is scarce and timber plenty, posts can be set into 

 the ground to rest the frame on. The floor is about two feet 

 from the ground. I use grub plank for floors, and inch boards 

 for partitions. The troughs run the entire length of the pen, 

 an outside board being removed immediately above the top of the 

 trough, so as to pour in the slop from the outside. Inside is a 

 cnvei for each trough, hung on hinges, which I let remain 



