Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . gboth sides of the feed alley. The mangers as well as the whole floorsurface are built of concrete with the man-gers elevated only three inches above thefloor level. As cows naturally feed fromthe ground it is only right that the man-gers should be very low down. The sideof the manger nearest the cow is made al-most perpendicular to prevent feed fromworking over amongst the bedding. But the feed alley floor is elevated and thatside of the manger
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . gboth sides of the feed alley. The mangers as well as the whole floorsurface are built of concrete with the man-gers elevated only three inches above thefloor level. As cows naturally feed fromthe ground it is only right that the man-gers should be very low down. The sideof the manger nearest the cow is made al-most perpendicular to prevent feed fromworking over amongst the bedding. But the feed alley floor is elevated and thatside of the manger is rounded up to itwhich makes it easy to keep the feed inthe mangers and easy to kick it back whenthe cows shove it out, as they do whilefeeding. A water faucet is placed at each end ofthe mangers for the purpose of wateringthe cows. For disposing of the water leftin the manger a drain in the center with anoverflow is provided. The middle postsextend from the back of the mangers andrun to the roof and these are spaced to al-low three stanchions between the posts. A gutter sixteen inches wide and fromfive to eight inches deep is run diagonally. 62 RADFORDS PRACTICAL behind the cows, starting at five feet fourfrom the mangers at one end and finishingup at the other end five feet ten, thus mak-ing different length stalls to accommodatelonger or shorter cows. The floor of the stalls is given a slightslope from the manger back to the gutterand the surface of the floor is left roughto prevent the cows from slipping and tohold the bedding in place. There is suf-ficient room back of the alley to run atruck or wheelbarrow to facilitate clean-ing out the manure. The liquids of courserun to the lowest point in the center of thegutters where they are connected with abell trap drain, whence they are carried toa catch-basin directly opposite the drainoutside of the building. From this catch-basin the liquids are pumped into the dis-tributing manure cart. All side walls are filled in solid
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