THE SUNKEN GARDEN 301 
and harvest and the correct succession of garden 
crops. She and Johnson planned a greenhouse, 
which Nelson built, for flowers and green stuff 
through the winter, she said; but I think it is 
chiefly a place where she can play in the dirt 
when the weather is bad. Anyhow, that glass 
house cost the farm $442, and the interest and 
taxes are going on yet. I as well as Polly had 
to do some building that autumn. Three more 
chicken-houses were built, making five in all. 
Each consists in ten compartments twenty feet 
wide, of which each is intended to house forty 
hens. When these houses were completed, I had 
room for forty pens of forty each, which was 
my limit for laying hens. In addition was one 
house of ten pens for half-grown chickens and 
fattening fowls. It would take the hatch of 
another year to fill my pens, but one must pro- 
vide for the future. These three houses cost, in 
round numbers, $2100,— five times as much as 
Polly’s glass house, —but I was not going to 
play in them. 
I also built a cow-house on the same plan as 
the first one, but about half the size. This was 
for the dry cows and the heifers. It cost $2230, 
and gave me stable room enough for the waiting 
stock, so that I could count on forty milch cows 
all the time, when my herd was once balanced. 
Forty cows giving milk, six hundred swine of all 
ages, putting on fat or doing whatever other 
duty came to hand, fifteen or sixteen hundred 
