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and holding each a half-a-dozen. They are fed with chopped 

 roots and oil-cake, and thrive well. It is estimated that a 

 hundred horse-cartloads of solid manure is produced by them 

 each winter. The place is kept sweet, clean, and well venti- 

 lated. The machinery, in addition to that named, consists of 

 corn and cake crushers, chafiF and turnip cutters, millstones, 

 <fec., all worked by steam. The granaries are on the floor over 

 the threshing-room, and the grain is carried up by cups or 

 sacks on bands, and delivered into the bins. A crane and 

 pulleys facilitates loading into carts on the outside. Among 

 the implements is Wood's combined reaper and mower. 



The horses, when kept at pretty hard work, are allowed two 

 bushels of grain per week, and often a daily feeding of beans in 

 addition, with hay in full supply. 



I was especially interested in the dairy establishment. This 

 is a short distance across the fields from the farm already 

 described. It is called Frograore. The dairy-house was built 

 under the direct supervision of the prince, and is the most 

 superb of its kind that I ever examined. It was finished only 

 about twelve months (so the dairy-maid informed us,) before 

 the death of his Royal Highness. To call it beautiful does not 

 begin to express it. It is splendid in all its parts. The milk- 

 room is thirty-six feet by twenty, and about twenty feet high, 

 the roof resting on pillars. The shelves all around are marble, 

 and the tables in the middle " all marble." The pans and dishes 

 are all porcelain, china, or glass. The floor, the walls, the 

 ceilings, are all porcelain, the floor and roof in the form of tiles, 

 the latter having openings for ventilation. The porcelain on the 

 walls is white. In the cornicing and other ornamental parts it 

 is embossed and colored. The whole is perfect in form, color- 

 ing and lustre. The pans were full of the richest milk 

 covered with the yellowest coating of cream. The obliging 

 maid gave us as much as we could drink. Around the walls, 

 beautifully painted on china, were likenesses of all the royal 

 family, the children represented in the midst of the quiet, 

 beautiful scenes of country life. The name of each was 

 placed beneath, I believe — as the " Princess Alice," &c. It is 

 needless to say that every thing was kept with the most 

 scrupulous neatness. 



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