The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 33 vQ ample shelter to wagons, carriages, and othervehicles, which may be driven through, andout at the opposite door. A short alley, underthe same cover, allows the horses as soon asthey are taken off the wagon, to be led directlyto the stable, without passing out of lean-to is built on the north side of the wa-gon-house, occupied by a tool-house openingto it, and apartments for eight milch cows,which are kept thus near and convenient formilking in winter. The mangers of this co
The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 33 vQ ample shelter to wagons, carriages, and othervehicles, which may be driven through, andout at the opposite door. A short alley, underthe same cover, allows the horses as soon asthey are taken off the wagon, to be led directlyto the stable, without passing out of lean-to is built on the north side of the wa-gon-house, occupied by a tool-house openingto it, and apartments for eight milch cows,which are kept thus near and convenient formilking in winter. The mangers of this cow-stable are filled from the hay-loft over the wa-Fig. 22—Plan of Piggery, gon-house, by simply thrusting it down an open-ing directly over them. The barn itself is 30 by 45 feet, and is built on the usual plan, with afloor in the center, and bays on each side; a portion of the inner bay is reserved for straw,which is kept dryand clean, for bothlitter and chop-ping into cattlefeed. The thresh-ing is mostly donein winter, bymeans of a smallthresher driven byan endless chainhorse powe
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