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doors, so that in case of very cold weather it can be closed 

 entirely. Sliding partitions are also prepared to divide 

 the shed into five compartments. The shed is littered 

 deeply with straw. Overhead we have storage room for 

 hay, corn-stalks and straw, and contiguous to the south 

 side is a room for corn, oats, meal, bran, &c., with a root- 

 cellar in the high bank. The hay is clover and timothy, 

 the clover cut while the flowers are in full bloom, and the 

 timothy cut a week earlier than one wouH cut it for 

 horses that are in train. The clover has been cured so 

 that its fragrance is that of a fine morning, no blackness 

 or mould, but a deep green ; an armful of it thrown to 

 the hogs is as greedily eaten as if it had just been cut. In 

 the root cellar are carrots, with a few other vegetables, 

 such as cabbages and sugar beets. The commissary is 

 well supplied, and are near enough the head of the 

 spring, so that we carry it in a pipe to the yard without 

 danger of freezing. 



These young things must be fed as regularly as the 

 movement of a Jules Jurgesen watch, varying their feed 

 whenever their appetite craves a change. But I must 

 beg your pardon for taking up this subject, which you had 

 tabooed till a rainy evening ; but once on the subject of 

 breeding and I do not know when to stop. I must pray 

 of you to put an end to my loquacity when it becomes 

 tiresome. I am not so conceited as to think that all of 

 my plannings and dreamings will be conceded to, or even 

 interest you, though I have had some experience in breed- 

 ing on a small scale, and have visited some of the large 

 breeding establishments of the country, but never yet 

 have seen one that suited me in all particulars. 



PRECEPTOR. Well, my scholar and partly teacher, I 

 have become greatly interested in your ideal farm, and 

 will be much pleased to hear you continue it, till the colts 

 have got to an age when they will be fit to go to sharp 



