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With its upper crust rather over done, prevented
an extended walk, still we could see that
the ice house was nearly filled with good
thick ice, the supply of firewood was rather
meager, considering the promise we have of
a cold, long and lingering winter. A rich
deposit of hen droppings under cover;
fine specimens of the swine family of
various ages in good clean quarters;
two grade jersey calves with a rather
pinched expression of contenance, but with
plenty of belly, were anchored to our out
- building defraying the wind might
otherwise have blown them away.
A large pile of small eared corn known
as the "Gaither Corn", calling forth a sinister
smile and a sarcastic expression from some
of our old fogies, who would rather raise
a big cob with no corn on it than to have
an ear with the kernel so deep you can
scarcely find and cob at all. These and some
other things we noticed. The cows were
comfortably stabled and it was remarked
by some of the knowing ones, looked remar-
-kably well for this hard winter.
Theremainder of the evening, with the
exception of the half hour devoted to gas-
-tronomical exercises was spent in discussing
questions of which the following is a par-
-tial synopsis. 1876 Miller reported on
quota of the debt incurred by the annual