712 GEAUGA COUNTY, OHIO. 



the road. I have such a pair of dapple grays, that weigh about 

 thirteen hundred pounds each, and they can make it lively 

 sometimes. 



BERKSHIKES. 



The Berkshire breed of hogs is the best that I ever tried, 

 and I keep that breed. 



FOWLS. 



I keep bronze turkeys and buff Cochin chicks. 



FKFIT. 



I have only sufficient fruit for home use, such as apples, 

 peaches, grapes, etc., and all of the usual varieties. 



FENCING. 



For fencing, I like rail fence ; but have some board fence 

 of white oak boards one inch thick, six inches wide, four boards. 

 The fence is four feet high. 



I CAEEY ON THE FARM 



with the help of one man, whom I hire for eight months at fifteen 

 dollars per month, and have him a few days extra in haying 

 time at one dollar and twenty-five cents per day. 



WELL WATERED. 



My farm is well watered by a never failing brook, running 

 in a southwest direction, across the eastern part of the farm. 

 There is also a fine spring near the house, which runs north till 

 it intersects the brook. Neither dry weather nor cold affects 

 this spring. 



BUILDINGS. 



In 1877 I built a substantial and well arranged barn, forty 

 by fifty-eight feet, eighteen feet posts, and basement. A bay at 

 each end is seventeen feet deep, with two floors in the middle 

 twelve feet each. When the bays are filled, I fill one floor, which 

 is the same as one of the bays, thirty-nine by forty feet, so there 

 is no waste room above. In the basement there are three 

 stables, two of them having eleven stanchions in each, the 

 other is cut up into five box stalls, with two cattle in each, 

 which are tied up. The three stables holji thirty-two head of 



