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various places, to accommodate stock as they may require. I 

 also have a mill for storing and preparing feed for stock. It is 

 twenty by thirty feet, with eighteen feet outside posts, placed 

 on piers three feet high, which gives an additional room for 

 hogs. On one end is a shed fourteen by twenty feet, in which 

 is a boiler with twelve-horse power engine, which furnislies 

 power for shelling corn, grinding and cutting feed and sawing 

 wood, as well as the steam to cook feed and scald hogs. This 

 room is supplied with water by means of pipes from an artificial 

 pond. The mill is furnished with one large corn sheller, which 

 has a capacity of one thousand five hundred bushels per day, 

 and shells either husked or unhusked corn. It has also one 

 large cutting box, suitable for cutting all kinds of feed, but is 

 used mostly for cutting corn in the ear with the husks on it. 

 Two men can cut one thousand bushels of ears per day, which 

 is used for feeding calves and sheep. In fact, all kinds of 

 stock eat it with very little waste, as it is cut up very fine. 

 As the feed comes from the cutter, it is elevated to the top of 

 the building, and run into a large bin sufficient to hold all that 

 is cut in one day. 



A pair of burrs are also used for grinding, with a capacity 

 for twenty-five bushels per hour. Elevators are used for 

 elevating shelled corn and meal to the bins in the upper story, 

 where they can be drawn out through spouts as required. A 

 circular saw is also run by the same power, which cuts all the 

 wood required for fuel on the farm. In shelling and grinding 

 corn, the cobs more than supply the fuel for the engine, so that 

 but little wood or coal is required. The other buildings con- 

 sist, in part, of a dwelling house, which is convenient and com- 

 fortable, if not ornamental, being one and a half stories high, 

 with ten rooms besides kitchen and servants' apartment. Tliere 

 is a good supply of out buildings, such as smoke house, hen 

 house, ice house, scale house, etc. There are also several sets 

 of tenement houses and stables, for families who cultivate the 

 land. 



MY TENANT SYSTEM. 



The land is cultivated by tenants, wlio are provided with 



