Archive image from page 121 of The dairyman's manual a. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm dairymansmanualp88stew Year: 1888 116 THE dairyman's MANUAL. stalls, five by ten feet, and a loose box for a cow, seven and a half by ten feet, with a passage, in which is a feed bill, room for a fodder cutter and feed box, and stairs to the hay loft. Over the feed box is a hay shute from the loft above. The jDoultry-house adjoins the passage, from which tvo doors open into it. This house is eighteen by twelve feet, and has a sloping front of
Archive image from page 121 of The dairyman's manual a. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm dairymansmanualp88stew Year: 1888 116 THE dairyman's MANUAL. stalls, five by ten feet, and a loose box for a cow, seven and a half by ten feet, with a passage, in which is a feed bill, room for a fodder cutter and feed box, and stairs to the hay loft. Over the feed box is a hay shute from the loft above. The jDoultry-house adjoins the passage, from which tvo doors open into it. This house is eighteen by twelve feet, and has a sloping front of glazed sash. The n .0| 1 PICS. J lJ COW. Q tn ? -1 -J - 1 < n r 1 » 1 _ gL Fig. 15.—PLAN OF STABLE WITH POULTRY-HOUSE. roosts are shown in the engraving by the three bars in each apartment. The poultry-house is divided into two parts, so that one can be appropriated for young chickens and brooding hens, which is a very convenient method, and avoids the loss of a single chick. At the other end is a yard for manure, with a pig-pen at the rear. Ak Open Cow Shed.—A cheap and convenient open shed for feeding or milking may be built as follows. Fig. 16.—OPEN cow SHED. Posts are set in the ground in four rows ten feet apart; the posts in the outer rows being ten feet apart and seven feet above the ground, and those in the inner rows being five feet apart and ten feet high. These posts are
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