The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-05
MOUNTAIN VIEW,

THE RESIDENCE OF TOBIAS D. COVER.
This farm contains 105 acres, and is
known as the Croft farm, being a part of
the land included in the purchase from his
father in 1888. Mr.. Cover has improved
this farm by the erection Of very handsome
and commodious buildings dwelling
house, large barn and all the necessary
outbuildings, together with 3,215 panels of
post and rail and board and picket fencing,
at cost of $4,000. The site chosen for
the buildings is unsurpassed for its lowell
ness. The dwelling stands on an eminence
overlooking Silver Run Valley, the view
extending to Silver Run village, on the
one side, and to the Blue Ridge Mountains
on the other, the beautiful Silver Run
threading its sparkling course through the
valley, imparting beauty and fertility on
every side.
The mansion house at MOUNTAIN VIEW
is stately and imposing edi6ce. 1t is of
frame, two stories and an attic, with fine
commodious basement, fitted with every
modern convenience for labor-saving. The
front or main building is AZ by Is feet,
the back building 36 by Is, and contains
eight rooms besides the basement. The
ceilings are lofty, the halls nine feet in
width. The wood work is finished in yell
low pine, vanished, the doors grained in
ash, the walls wainscotted for five feet
above the floor, then plastered in Gershom
Huff S best style, with ornate center-pieces
in fancy stucco. The front of the building
is ornamented with two bay windows, the
intermediate space filled by handsome
portico, the roof of the house surmounted
by pediment, and the cornice supported
by brackets, giving very handsome finish
to the entire building. Water is conducted
all through the house and in the kitchen
by pipes, provided with faucets, SO that it
can be used with the utmost facility. The
kitchen is provided with creamery and a
refrigerator for the keeping of butter, milk,
&C., in the best possible condition. The
water is conveyed in pipes, forced by a
ram 200 yards distant from fine spring
300 yards distant, into tank in the garnet
of 500 gallons capacity. This tank sup
plies the bath house, the chambers, the
creamery, the kitchen, the wash house, the
summer house, and also serves to irrigate
the garden, if needed, in time of drouth.
The conveniences afforded by the water
works are very great.
The barn is Y by 40 feet, surmounted
by three ventilators, with every modern
improvement, built in the most substantial
manner. The barn will accommodate six
horses and twenty-eight head of cattle. A
water tank, supplied with running water, is
in the barn yard for the convenience of the
cattle, which will supply $50 head of cattle
every twenty-four hours. The other out
buildings are numerous, and all new, built
at the same time as the house and barn, in
1883. There is wash and smoke house,
20 by 16 feet; hen house, 10 by IA feet;
corn crib, so feet by 4, II feet high; ice
and carriage house, Is by 26 feet; and
summer house.
Mr.. Cover has planted three orchards
containing 529 fruit and other trees, among
which is pear and peach orchard, shade
trees of several kinds in the lawn, grape
vines, flowers, and shrubbery. He has
ditched and tiled his meadow, and put 1000
bushels of lime upon his land, and repaired
500 panels of fence. The improvements
show that he is a progressive man, and
never idle or standing still.
The Yingling farm has no buildings
The Hull farms are tenanted out on shares
On the VIM. H. Hull farm there is large
brick dwelling house two stories high, 40
by 80 feet, containing nine rooms besides
basement and cellar This farm is divided
into eight fields, and, like the other farms
is in high state of cultivation. There
is also fine barn on the farm, and othel
necessary outbuildings. 1t is well watered
and stocked with fruit, is well fenced, ano
kept in the best order A finer body o.
land than these four contiguous farms can
not we'll be found in any part of the county
Mr.. Cover and his tenants fed about III
head of stock the past winter. Among
these were Is head of horses and mules, 25
COWS, 30 hogs, and 46 head of steers fol
the shambles. Like his father, he thinks
that much of the profit of farming is tt
be found in cattle feeding
The hogs fed on Mountain View farm
are White Chesters and Berkshires Tn,
cattle are grades, but large and well devel
oped, the result of good care and good feed
ing The poultry turkeys, chickens anC
ducks; are all mixed, no special varietie
predominating.
For the present, MOUNTAIN view pre-
sents the aspect of all new places. TIL
shade trees and shrubbery are small, bu
growing. When they are sufficiently
grown it will be one of the handsomes
residences in the county, as the land OF
which it stands, and the whole body of tn,
five hundred acres together is unsurpassed