FEEDING COWS — BUILDINGS. 701 



HORSES. 



I keep six horses to do the Avork of my farm. Last year 

 they hauled one hundred and fifty loads of manure from the city. 



BEKKSniRES. 



Last 3^ear I raised eighteen Berksliire hogs, worth eight 

 dollars a piece, and ten sheep, on my place. jNIy sheep raised 

 fourteen lambs, and I clipped one hundred and ten pounds of 

 clean, washed wool. I have forty milch cows, which produce 

 an average of eighty-one gallons of milk per day. This milk 

 I haul to town, where I receive an average of twenty cents per 

 gallon for it. 



FEEDING MILCH COWS. 



The produce of six days I take to town and sell, but that 

 of the seventli I keep to make butter for the family. My cows 

 are tied in the stable to be milked and fed. A small engine is 

 attached to the stable, by which all the feed is steamed. This 

 engine runs a machine which cuts all the hay and straw, also 

 a pair of burrs which grind the corn all in the ear. Equal 

 portions of this meal and mill-feed are taken, mixed with the 

 cut hay and straw, and all steamed together. The pumpkins 

 are also steamed. Three pecks of this mixture are fed to each 

 cow twice a day, after whicli a little dry hay. In the Winter, 

 fodder is fed to them in the barn yard in the middle of the 

 day, at which time in Summer they are turned into pasture. 



BUILDINGS. 

 My house is brick with stone trimmings. It is forty feet 

 wide in front by sixty-four feet in depth and twenty-seven feet 

 high. In front there are two bay windows, with a veranda be- 

 tween them. From this veranda a hall, twelve feet wide, runs 

 through the house, on one side of which, on the first floor, are 

 three rooms, and on the other three rooms and a washhouse. 

 Up-stairs there are four rooms on each side of this hall. My 

 house is all finished with lumber cut from the farm, black and 

 white walnut and ash, tastefully combined, and polished and 

 varnished. The roof is of slate. A cellar runs under the 



