778 LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA. 



CORN CRIB. 



West of the barn-yard, facing it, with gable end, stands a 

 frame building on solid stone foundation (like all buildings) 

 thirty by forty, twelve feet high, with six foot shed on south 

 side. This building contains a corn crib forty by four, and ten 

 feet high on north side, a sixteen feet floored passageway in the 

 center, with large double doors in both ends, four hog pens 

 ten by ten on the south side, whose partitions can be removed 

 if needed for cattle feeding. In such a case, the six foot shed 

 comes in use for hogs to run behind, being shut out from where 

 the cattle stand. Above this feeding place a tight floor forty 

 by ten is used for storing corn. Over the center passage corn 

 or hay can be stored at pleasure, if needed for cattle feeding. 

 The passage way is used for mixing slop and preparing feed ; 

 also for wagons and other purposes. Here I have also a cistern 

 to secure the water collected from the roof. All buildings, 

 except the dwelling, which I have painted, are kept white- 

 washed, and it answers well. There are several old buildings 

 on different parts of my farm that can be used as shelter for 

 stock id bad weather, or for storing any thing when not in use. 



O. DINWIDDIE, 



ORCHARD GROVE, LAKE COUNTY. 



Sheep Racks — Cheap Hog Pen — Open Wells — Windmill. 



SHEEP RACKS. 



For sheep racks I use six-inch fencing, sixteen feet long, 

 and two by four scantling of the same length. I saw the 

 scantling into pieces four feet long, then lay two pieces on the 

 barn floor, three feet apart at one end, and two and a half at 

 the other. I then nail pieces of boards on, about six inches 

 apart, letting the bottom board project about four inches at 

 each end. I nail through the projecting ends into short pieces 

 of two by four, set edgewise to the long pieces. Using this for 



