756 JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA. 



been made up in the aggregate, approximating only the cost of 

 each item ; therefore I can give no details. 



HORSES. 



Jefferson county for years has had an excellent reputation 

 for the quality and character of its horses for speed, several 

 stallions of fine breeding being owned in this and adjoining coun- 

 ties. On my farm, "Arab Star" is making a season. He is a 

 chestnut horse, foaled 1875, by Heinzel's American Star, dam 

 Zelica, an Arabian mare ; was bred and is owned by John P. 

 Newell, of Florida, N. Y., and is registered in the stud book. 



NEAT STOCK. 



I have raised high grade Short-Horns, using a thorough- 

 bred bull, not of fashionable pedigree, regard being had more 

 to his form and constitutional vigor for producing early matur- 

 ing animals. I use Jersey grade cows for this cross, but they 

 do not answer so well as grade Short-Horns, because my object 

 is to obt;ain the greatest amount of flesh in the shortest time, 

 without much regard to the milking qualities, though this is 

 not entirely lost sight of. 



My cattle are housed in clean, well ventilated stables.. 

 The feed is made up with starch feed meal base, with bran, 

 etc., changing the mixture occasionally, and feeding regularly 

 only just so much as will be eaten up clean at one time. I 

 supply with an abundance of pure Avater ; not the drainage 

 of the barn-yard, or from stagnant ponds. The success of 

 my method is indicated by the weights of two calves sold a 

 sliort time since, one fifteen months' old heifer weighing nine 

 liundred and forty-five pounds, and one five months' old bull 

 weighing five hundred and eighty-five pounds. 



COTSWOLDS. 



My sheep are high grade Cotswold, shearing six to eight 

 pounds of wool eacli. My custom has been to sell the buck 

 lambs in early Summer and the cuUings of the flock in the 

 Winter. Their feed is the same as I give to the cattle, and I 

 provide them with roomy, open slieds, enclosed by a high paling 



