776 GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA. 



smoke-house, and the same distance in a northeasterly direction 

 is a frame building, 24x14, used as a wood-house, with a meal 

 room on one end. A supply of dry wood of different lengths is 

 kept there the whole year, ready when needed. The house is 

 always filled before Spring work commences. This, as well as 

 the main building and kitchen, have tin gutters under the 

 eaves, and, if wanted, the rainfall can be directed to either of 

 the cisterns mentioned. 



West of the dwelling I have a grapery and an orchard, 

 containing apples, pears, cherries, peaches, quinces, etc. On 

 the east side I have a vegetable garden, with small fruits, all 

 fronting the highway, and divided from the house yard by sub- 

 stantial palings. East of my wood-house and north of my gar- 

 den, is the wood lot, containing, also, the chicken house. East 

 from this is the barn yard, where the barn and hog house are 

 located. 



BARN, 



. My barn faces south, and is of the kind known as a bank 

 barn. Tfee ground story is made of cut stone, and is 33x72, 

 about niiie feet high in the clear, and is divided into four four- 

 teen-foot stables, with eight-foot feeding rooms between each 

 two stables, and a four-loot passageway on the north side, 

 which enables the person feeding, when once in the building, 

 to reach any part of the stable below or the mow above, with- 

 out opening an outside door. My two east stables are divided 

 into stalls for the use of the horses. My feed room between 

 them holds, in close boxes, oats, corn, and measures, attached 

 to the feed box of each horse. Here, also, the hay is received 

 from the mow, and, after being well shaken, is placed in the 

 racks, which are almost straight, with a broad bottom board 

 and a back to hold the hay in its proper place. The two other 

 stables I use for cattle. Each contains a rack, lower, but simi- 

 lar in shape to those in the horse stables, and a manger along 

 the whole length, to which cattle can be tied. The doors to 

 my stables and feed rooms are divided in two parts ; the lower 

 part, for about four and a half feet up, are solid, while the up- 

 per part is made of slats for ventilation. The upper structure 



