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large cattle. The floor is cemented, with drains through the 

 whole of it, two inches deep and fourteen inches wide, which 

 catches all the droppings and liquid manure. When the 

 manure is wheeled out in the morning, a little sawdust is put 

 in the drains, which saves it in good order. I have a good well 

 in the basement. 



DWELLING HOUSE. 



My house was all built by the day, as I did not want any 

 job work done, nor any poor materials used. I have another 

 barn across the road from the house, for the use of horses and 

 calves. I have a building near the milking yard, which I 

 formerly used as a cheese house, but now I keep it for a shop. 

 I have a granary fourteen by twenty feet, but it is not large 

 enough for my wheat, corn and oats. 



O. WILCOX, 



HINCKLEY, MEDINA COUNTY. 



The Profit in a Small Farm — Fruit — Onions — Stock — 



Sheep. 



I have a small farm of twenty acres, located in Hinckley, 

 Medina county, Ohio. The country here is quite rolling. The 

 soil is a clay loam, well adapted to grazing and meadows. But 

 a large proportion of it has, through bad management, become 

 much degenerated, and hardly pays two per cent, on the money 

 invested. 



I propose to tell you how I have supported my father, 

 mother, wife, and one child on twenty acres, and have been 

 improving the land and buildings all the time. 



My farm is nearly square, and divided so that I have five 

 two acre lots for general purposes ; from two and a half to 

 three acres in wood, two acres in orchards, and one acre in small 



