muddy ; his feeding troughs were in this lot, all 

 covered with mud, and some of the feed, on 

 account of the mud in the trough, was left. 

 I expostulated with him about his slovenly 

 manner of feeding. He replied that he could do 

 no better. I said to myself, this is your first 

 and last winter for feeding, and so it was. 



My buildings, which it will be well to describe 

 as fully as possible, were put up with as much 

 reference to storing the products of the. farm as 

 for protecting and sheltering the sheep. The 

 barn first in order, is nearly surrounded by other 

 buildings; it is forty-four by fifty -two feet, with 

 twenty-foot posts, with upper and lower floors — 

 horse and cow stables and granary, all below. 

 Into this barn goes all the grain I raise, first, 

 and then as much feeding hay as it will hold — 

 and there was room this year for but very little. 



When I thresh my grain (which I always do 

 in the fall), I put the straw mostly back into this 

 larger barn for feed and litter. The granary in 

 this barn will hold about six hundred bushels of 

 grain, and has an alley through the middle where 

 the corn, oil-meal, etc., is mixed for feeding the 

 sheep. The upper and lower floors of the barn 

 are used for hay, straw, etc., from one feeding to 



