704 JENNIT^GS COUNTY, INDIANA. 



Gravenstein and Fall Pippin, are among the best Fall apples. 

 Rome Beauty, Smith's Cider, Baldwin, Roxbury Russet, Tulpa- 

 hocken, Rawle's Janet, White Pearmain and Ben Davis, are 

 all good Winter apples. 



PEARS. 



I have one thousand pear trees just beginning to bear. 

 I planted and cultivated just as I did my apple orchard, except- 

 ing that I planted them twenty feet each way. They are 

 nearly all standards and mostly of the following varieties : five 

 hundred Bartlett, about fifty each of Buffum, Flemish Beauty, 

 Rossiter, Duchesse d' Angouleme, Seckel, Hanney and others. 

 They are now nine years old, and beginning to bear. I raise 

 the small fruits and grapes for home consumption. 



CREAMERIES. 



I have had some experience in furnishing milk and in 

 observing the running of the factory. I am of opinion that 

 making butter and cheese is very good business when well 

 managed, "^nd is profitable to farmers. A home market is made 

 for their ^produce and it keeps up the soil. 



BARNS. 



I have six barns. My nearest barn is about twelve rods 

 from my dwelling house, and is forty-seven b}^ one hundred and 

 sixteen feet. My carriage and tool house is sixteen by forty- 

 seven ; stable, twelve by forty-seven ; feed room, eight by 

 forty-seven. All these are at one end of the barn. At the 

 other end is a stable, twelve by forty-seven feet, a threshing 

 floor, twenty-four by twenty-four, a granary, twelve by four- 

 teen, two more stables, twelve by twelve each. The middle 

 of the barn is one large mow. I have another barn, about 

 fourteen rods from the house, sixty by sixty feet, with hay 

 press in the center. This barn is entirely for hay and holds 

 about one hundred and twenty tons. The third barn is halt a 

 mile from dwelling, and is forty-five by eighty-five ; there is 

 a stable across one end, with a cistern ; the remainder is 

 entirely for hay, and holds ninety tons. My fourth barn is for 

 dairy cows, and is forty-eight by forty-eight. The stables are 



