The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-01-09
NUMBER 80.
Model Wisconsin Farm.

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Probably one of the most complete farm
in the State of Wisconsin, in all that per-
tains to convenience and business facilities,
is the farm of Hon. Gideon Truesdell, some
six miles west of the city of Kenosha. If
there is any other farm in the State which
equals it in the extent of its equipments,
we have yet TO learn the fact A correspon-
dent of the Milwaukee Sentinel, gives a
lengthy description Of this farm, from which
we take the following extract:
''Mr. TruesdeI purchased this farm four
years ago, and has kept adding to it until
he has the largest and most productive one
in the State For the past three years he
has been building upon and improving it.
Upon the West side of the road he has built
large house two stories high S6x18 feet,
with two wings 23x30; also a cheese, curing
room 56x32 hog pen 64x25 barn 13x
49,, with stalls for 70 cows and an ice
house 18x18. He has secured one of Fair
banks's largest size scales for his own use.
Upon the east side Of the road he has built
a tool house where all of his farming tools
are kept from exposure to the storms and
sun-2Ox1S; a wagon shed G4x26; horse
barn 76x32 and made after the most APP
proved plan hog pen 64x28 well divided
and finished grain barn 1l2x40 and "a it.
posts. In this barn, besides storing his
grain, he has a thrcshing machine, corn
shelter, tanning milI,tw mills to grind feed
for his stock, and straw cutter. Adioin-
ing this barn he has an engine rouse 1Sx19
where be has twelve horse power engine
which drives all of his machinery, besides
steaming MS feed saving his wood, water
ing his stock, and doing all the work re
CURED on such farm One hundred feet |
from the grain barn he has built another
COW barn 179x34, capable of stalling 10 |
COWS, with stalls made upon each side. Be-
tween these barns be has a large we'll that
was capable of furnishing water for any
quantity of stock during the past season,
which has beeu tue driest for the past thirty
years. Under the COW barn he has deep
cellar; where he draws all his dirt gathered
from ditching and muck, which he mixes
daily with the manure from his cows, and
be saves everything that will make manure.
He has now ITO cows which he feeds on |
cut straw steamed, and mixes ten bushels |
of oat meal daily with it and the whole |
expense daily for feeding his cows will not |!
exceed six dollars. When straw is cut and !
steamed in this way, his COWS leave moth !
ing, and it is the most nutritious food you
can give them. He has 276 feet of railway, |
with cars to convey the food to his cows,
which are fed twice day His COWS are
let out few hours each day to drink and
walk around, which is beneficial to their
health and comfort He has q blacksmith |
shop Is by IS, carpenter shop Is by 30,
packing house IS by 45, calf and colt sheds I
1913 by 30 Allof his mechanical work is
done upon the farm. He has now ITO COWS
aud will milk 100 next season 27 two.
year old cots-yearling colts II, working
mares Is, and intends to raise 10 colts the
next season; calves 56. He has now 1901
hogs well fatted. He raised the past seas !
on 1900 bushels Of apples of the best vari-
cites anu choicest grated fruit and 25d
bushels fpears. Slaughtered sixty seven
hogs averaging 270 pounds-making Is, 097I
pounds which he has packed He has the
largest cheese factory in the country. He
made 49, 600 pounds of cheese the past seas
on. The milk is put into a tin vat, of the
Oneida pattern and heated by furnace unf
til its heat is So degrees. 1t is then scalded |
up to 105 degrees, and remains there from
one to five hours, until it is thoroughly
cooked then it is dipped or wheyed off in
to a sink settler and sailed aud put into the
press The salt used is Ashtous Liverpool
imported salt celebrated for making cheese
and curing butter. The press used is the
iron screw press, and the hoop Rosas Ex-
pansive patent, which is used in the State
of New York, and throughout the North |
west, The size made is sixty pounds and
usually made four per day lis cheese fac,
tory is large neat and couImodious, made
exclusively to accommodate the buitiess of
the farm, which is the raising Of grain aud
manufacture of cheese. His cheese has been
sold at benefit of SO. 500. i
Erastus Tory and wife, celebrated farm
ers and cheese makers from the county Of
Allegany New York, are employed as gu
perintendents and overseers of the whole
business. The cheese made will compare
with any in the state of New York or Ohio.
Last season MIR I'ruesdel built himself
private residence, which is large and com
modious, and for beauty Of location cannot
be surpassed in the country. 1t is built up
on an elev alton, and is surrounded by the
old native oak and hickory trees 1t is so by
81, with a wing 81 by 16, woodshed, "a by
90 horse-b barn for his private use SO by %
with a cellar 20 by % feet. His private
residence is about half mile FROM his farm,
His farm house is on the farm he calls his
home farm, which contains eight hundred
acres The estimated vane of the farm
and improvements is 70, 000s exclusive of
stock lie is Que Of our oldest and most
respected citizens, aud an early settler.
lie represented our county at the lasts
sion Of the state Legislature His whole
soul is nov engaged in building and ma
king improvements upon his farm, to which
he is continually adding buildings and