BARNS — SHEEP. 765 



on three sides, with stanchions for twenty cows and four horses. 

 A room for bran is at one end, six by eighteen feet, with loft 

 overhead, and twenty-four square feet in the center of the barn 

 for feed. 



Barn number five is twenty-six by sixty-six feet, with a 

 stable twelve feet across one end. The remainder is designed 

 for hay. Barn number six is sixty by sixty feet, with stable on 

 one side and sheds for stock on two sides, with a granary and- 

 room for eighty tons of hay. The land here is clay loam, well 

 timbered. It is good pasture land, well watered and tolerably 

 good for wheat and corn. 



T. KEENE, 



VALPARAISO, PORTER COUNTY. 



Sheep — Hogs — Drainage. 



My farm lies one and a half miles north of the city of Val- 

 paraiso, and is what is called barren land, the timber growing 

 short and scrubby. The soil is clay. My husbandry is mixed, 

 and I raise no more grain than I feed, except wheat. Clover, 

 I think, kills after the second year, if sown clear. Timothy is 

 a sure crop and pays better than grain. 



SHEEP. 



My soil is well adapted to sheep raising and they are my 

 favorite stock, but we have a serious drawback, one which 

 has discouraged some of my neighbors, and that is, dogs. 

 It is a shame to be obliged to watch your sheep during the day 

 and yard them at night, in order to save them from blood- 

 thirsty curs, but such is the case. Last Summer I left my fl(jck 

 a few nights in my orchard lot, and lost five per cent, of them 

 in one night as the result. 



BEGINNING A FLOCK. 



I commenced my flock by buying some natives with wool- 

 less legs and bellies, shearing less than three pounds to the 



