720 ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO. 



fullof corn and oats ground in equal parts, twice a day. I never 

 have a sick animal or a poor one, and always sell before any 

 trouble comes upon me in consequence of old age of my animals. 



GOOD STOCK. 



My stock are always nice. I get the red ribbons at our 

 fairs, and others call me lucky, but there is no such thing as 

 luck. Do your work well, use good judgment in breeding, 

 aim to get good stock to begin with, and make each new crop 

 better, if possible. 



My other farm stock are a few herd of sheep, horses, and 

 colts, and poultry, in about the usual quantity which farmers 

 generally keep. 



COWS. 



I have four good grade cows for milk and butter. Any of 

 them will give over forty pounds of milk per day on an aver- 

 age, and of good quality in June, and make full two hundred 

 poLuids of butter per head each season. I have made my whole 

 dairy average over five thousand pounds of milk per cow, 

 when sending to our cheese factories ; but it requires good 

 cows, good pastures, and extra feed in all months but part of 

 May, June, and part of July. 



FEEDING MILCH COWS. 



I change the feed for milch cows, from chop feed, as before 

 stated, to bran ; as cold weather comes on I commence with 

 the ground corn and oats again. I can not raise crops on my 

 old clay farm, Avhich has been in use constantly for seventy 

 years, unless I give it high cultivation and plenty of fertilizers. 



GRAIN. 



I make no specialty of any other kind of farming. I keep 

 about six acres each of corn, oats, and wheat each 3'ear, using 

 this rotation, manuring corn in hill or with phosphates, one 

 barrel to the acre. Also on my oats I use one barrel of phos- 

 phate to the acre, and drill them in with phosphate drill. 



I always stock my land with the wheat crop, and use all 

 the manure I can make on the farm each year with this crop, 



