. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. 536 FARMER'S HAND-BOOK. racks are well filled in the morning, each will feed 100 sheep during the day. One filling will be sufficient, provided the sheep can pick up a little grass, or they are fed with some other kind of green food. They must be well supplied with water, which may be readily done by means of a pump and long trough. Salt will also be frequently required. IX. CATTLE-SHEDS. Uses and Requisites. — Cattle-sheds are used either for lodging milch cows or young cattle, or for stall-feeding for
. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. 536 FARMER'S HAND-BOOK. racks are well filled in the morning, each will feed 100 sheep during the day. One filling will be sufficient, provided the sheep can pick up a little grass, or they are fed with some other kind of green food. They must be well supplied with water, which may be readily done by means of a pump and long trough. Salt will also be frequently required. IX. CATTLE-SHEDS. Uses and Requisites. — Cattle-sheds are used either for lodging milch cows or young cattle, or for stall-feeding for the butcher. The principal requisites, in buildings of this description, are to be capable of being properly ventilated, to be constructed so as to require the least possible labor in feeding the cattle and cleaning away the dung, and to have the stalls so formed as to keep the animals dry and clean, with sufficient drains to carry away, and reservoirs to collect, the urine and dung. Arrangement of Cattle-sheds. — The common method of arrangement in these houses is to place a long beam of wood, about five feet high and two feet from the wall, at the heads of the animals; and to this beam the posts are fastened to which the cattle are attached. The usual distance of these posts is about four feet. A movable ring is placed round each post, from which a chain is extended round the neck of the cattle, and they feed from a !t(W manger or trough, formed merely of a raised edge of stone or wood, between which and the wall the food is placed. A more perfect arrangement is now adopted. This consists in placing Fig. the heads of the animals at such a distance from the wall as to leave a nar- row pathway in front, by which the food can be more easily placed before. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original wor
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