I used to spend much valuable time in planning a barn that should betight and warm, with a fire in it, if necessary, in order to keep thetemperature somewhere near the freezing-point. I could n't look at howthe cattle could live in a place where a lively boy, full of youngblood, would freeze to death in a short time if he did not swing hisarms and slap his arms, and jump about like a goat. I thought Iwould have a sort of perpetual manger that should shake down the haywhen it was wanted, and a self-acting machine that should cut up theturnips and pass them into the mangers, and water always flowing forthe cattle and mules to drink. With these simple arrangements Icould lie in bed, and know that the "chores" were doing themselves.It would also be necessary, in order that I should not be disturbed,that the crow should be taken out of the roosters, but I could skinnykof no process to do it. It seems to me that the hen-breeders, ifthey know as much as they say they do, might raise a breed ofcrowless roosters for the benefit of boys, quiet neighborhoods, andsleepy families.