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provide for allowing the manure to accumulate in the stable, 

 as that place is preferable to any other. When lambs are to 

 be 'ed extra and separate from the ewes, I have an adjacent 

 shed, with small troughs to suit arranged in it, and an opening 

 from the other shed just large enough to allow the lambs to 

 pass in. The lambs soon learn that they have better rations in 

 the other place, and are very quick to get to it when turned 

 into the shed, or opportunity offers. 



EDWARD P. WEYER, 



MADISON, JEFFERSON COUNTY. 



Stock and Bee Farm — Short-Horns — Sheep and Hogs. 



SPRING HILL STOCK AND BEE FARM. 



My farm is located within one-half mile of the corporate 

 limits of the city of Madison, Indiana, and contains two hun- 

 dred and seventy-five acres of fine land on the highlands 

 extending back from the Ohio river, the surface rolling suffi- 

 ciently to afford good natural drainage. The soil is a deep fer- 

 tile loam overlying a subsoil of red clay, and is well supplied 

 with abundance of soft limestone water from conveniently sit- 

 uated living springs. My usual practice has been a course of 

 mixed husbandr}^, with the raising of cattle, sheep, and hogs, 

 though the farm is well adapted to branches of nearly every 

 kind. I have now under cultivation about one hundred and fifty 

 acres, the remainder being occupied by the buildings, orchards, 

 open and woods pasture, timber, etc. 



GRAIN. 



Wheat is the only grain product usually sold from my 

 farm, though I have grown barley successfully. All corn, oats, 

 and hay, I consume on the place. I have never ascertained 

 tlic cost of each particular crop, but my accounts have always 



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