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have attractive features. We decided to make 
it of dark red paving brick. It was to be eighteen 
feet by thirty, with two rooms on the ground. 
- The first, or south room, ten feet by eighteen, was 
fitted for storing fruit, and afforded a stairway 
to the rooms above, which were four in number 
_ besides the bath. The larger room was of course 
_ the butter factory, and was equipped with up- 
to-date appliances, — aérator, Pasteurizer, cooler, 
_ separator, Babcock tester, swing churn, butter- 
q worker, and soon. The house was to have steep 
_ gables and projecting eaves, with a window in 
each gable, and two dormer windows in each 
. roof. The walls were to be plastered, and the 
oi ground floor was to be cement. It cost $1375. 
As motive power for the churn and separator, 
_ a two-sheep-power treadmill has proved entirely 
satisfactory. It is worked by two sturdy wethers 
_ who are harbored in a pleasant house and run, 
close to the power-house, and who pay for their 
_ food by the sweat of their brows and the wool 
_ from their backs. They do not appear to dis- 
like the “demnition grind,” which lasts but an 
_ hour twice a day; they go without reluctance to 
_ the tramp that leads nowhere, and the futile 
_ journey which would seem foolish to anything 
_ wiser than a sheep. This sheep-power is one of 
_ the curios of the place. My grand-girls never 
_ lose their interest in it, and it has been photo- 
_ graphed and sketched more times than there are 
_ fingers and toes on the sheep. 
