The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-31

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see that ram o. yourn.
The old farmhouse has been entirely
reconstructed within the past wear. II
is now a quaint but slightly building. APP
parently new throughout, and contain
ing about twenty rooms. Il Is plainly
but tastefully furnished. The exterior
is painted white, with red roof and green
window shutters. There are forty win
doWs. The Generals public Office is 4
small building standing few feet from
the northeast corner OF his house. In
the rear, a few rods away, are other out
buildings and the baTns-one for horses
and another for eattle-the sheds for
cattle and sheep, etc. The barns are
models of neatness, cleanliness, and con-
venience. There are FIVE horses, a
matched team Of light dappled grays,
very fine pair Of matched blacks, and g.
Kentucky mare which the General
bought of Orville Grant.
Gen. Garfield is not a very expert
horseman, and he sometimes shows lit
tie absent mindedness that amuses his
neighbors. It is his habit to drive to
church on Sundays with his family, I'M
attended by a servant. He vii not al
low his team to stand out IN the cold
during service, but unhitches and puts
his horses In friends BAN hear the
church. Last Sunday, after service, he
hitehed his span of black colts to his
wagon and forgot to buckle the lines to
the bits. The consequence was that
when he got into the wagon and started
the team he came very near having
runaway. When the team was stopped
and the lines buckled an old farmer
graveIy remarked: General, you'll
have to do better than that when yOu
take the reins of Government, or the po-
ltical mules will git away with you r
OF cattle there Is herd of twenty
six. mostly grade Durhams, but there
are three Attorney cows and one thor
oughbred Attorney bull. The latter
was presented to Gen. Garfield by the
Hon. A. S. Hewitt, before the unfortun-
ate unpleasantness growing out of the
Morey Chinese letter.
At the last session of Congress, after
the hot debates on the "riders" to the
Appropriation bill, Gen. Garfield and
MIR. Hewitt were engaged IN friendly
conversation. It will be remembered
that Garfield had denounced the action
of the Democrats as revolutionary.
Said Hewitt General, ] have some
very fine Attorney stock, and / will send
thoroughbred bull calf to your farm on
one condition. "What is the condi-
tion?" asked Garfield. "That the bull
shall be named by me-" said Hewitt.
"All right, " replied the General "and
what name will you give him?" " Revo-
luton, said Hewitt. "Well, reioined
the General, sit shall be that, if you say
SO, but | think more appropriate name
would be Congressional Rider" The
calf soon came to the farm, and bears
the name that the donor gave him.
The milk from Gen. Garield's dairy
is carried to the railway station every
morning and evening, and shipped to
the Cleveland market. Near the barns
is small building in which is kept
steam engine, which was manufactured
by the J. l. Case Threshing Machine
Company, Racine, Wis, used for saving
wood, cutting feed for the stock, etc.
Besides the stock already mentioned,
there are eighteen thoroughbred Cots
void sheep and dozen swine of the
Berkshire and Poland China breeds.
Notwithstanding the alleged depreda-
tons of visitors, very fair crops were
harvested as the result of the past
seasons work. From fifteen acres of
corn there was husked 1000 bushels;
seven and one third acres of wheat aver
aged thirty-three bushels per acre !;
fourteen acres Of oats yielded $50 bush
els; six acres of barley, $40 bushels !;
eight acres of rye, 272 bushels; from
thirty-five acres of meadow were har-
vested rs tons Of hay; AM two acres of
mangel-wurzels yielded 800 bushels.
There is also a small buckwheat crop,
not yet threshed. There are fifty acres
of pasture. There is small orchard,
which bore, this year, about 500 bushels
of apples. The farm, with the improve
me hts made on it by Gen. Garfield, is
estimated to be worth $25, 900.
Gen. Garfield has the reputation
among his neighbors Of being q good
farmer-one of the best, indeed, in this
region, where good farmers abound.
They tell me that he manifests deep
interest in everything pertaining to agri-
culture and stock-raising. He finds
recreation in farm work, and personally
takes hand in it whenever he can find
time to do so. Although he has three
men employed on the farm, and several
servants about the house, he is in the
habit of doing any little chores or err
rands that may came in his way. It Is
not an uncommon thing for him TO go to
the postoffice, half = mile away, on
horseback, and carry home on the pom
mel of his saddle large and well-filled
mail bag. His plain and farm-like man
ners and habits greatly endear him to
the country people about him.
It is unjust to mention the other ami
mails on Gen. Garfeld's farm and say
nothing Of his big black Newfoundland
dog, "Veto." He is q very kind and in
telligent fellow, and seems to share IN
the genial and hospitable spirit which
pervades the premises. He expects re-
cognition from every visitor. Going into
the Generals Office, once, after a few
days absence, I greeted the gentlemen
who were there, but did not speak to
Veto. He looked at me expectantly from
the opposite side of the room for a min
ute or two, and, when l failed to speak
to him, he saluted me with bow-wow-
WOW that was perfectly comical in Its
peculiar tone of reprOof, and then sprang
across the room and laid his head on my
knee for the customary patting.
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