Boone County Recorder . ade expressly for thispurpose, but are too expensiveand a wooden grating may be madeat much less the expense andwill serve the same end. The slatsshould be of hard wood \H inches wide,and the same space between them. Thegrating may be fastened on hinges andraised to take out the manure. An-other bad thing in many stables is theordinary stationary stanchion by whichthe cows are fastened by their Is very hard on the cattle in lyingdown, as it slways holds their headsand necks in one position. They shouldbe discarded for the tie or a swingstanchion fastened by a c
Boone County Recorder . ade expressly for thispurpose, but are too expensiveand a wooden grating may be madeat much less the expense andwill serve the same end. The slatsshould be of hard wood \H inches wide,and the same space between them. Thegrating may be fastened on hinges andraised to take out the manure. An-other bad thing in many stables is theordinary stationary stanchion by whichthe cows are fastened by their Is very hard on the cattle in lyingdown, as it slways holds their headsand necks in one position. They shouldbe discarded for the tie or a swingstanchion fastened by a chain at thebottom and top, too, If possible. Thefloor should always be level and well-bedded and the stables kept dry, cleanand sweet Among the best arranged stables for-eeesfertof-the andconvenience that we know of are thoseof George T. Powell, of Columbiacounty, N. Y„ director of the New Ycrkfarmers Institutes. They are in thebasement of his concrete barn and runlengthwise of it The stanchions used. This spring continued to flow runningdue north for twenty miles, then was I lost In the sand. In places it wss overtwo miles wide and from four to twen-ty feet deep. When immigration in After they got out of college Percybehaved himself, but not for long. Heirot to gambling and drinking and allsorts of horrid things. The family wasproud and extremely sensitive. Theyfeared he would do something thatwould disgrace them forever; some-thing that the sensational newspaperswould make a hue and cry over ssAnother sweU gone wrong!* you knowwhat I mean. At last he did. He made an un-fortunate marriage. A very good sortof a woman was Grace Morris, butquite below him. He did not stop here,but forged a large check on his fathersname. The matter wss paitly hushedup. 18S1 moved by the isthmus and thenorthern route, the miraculous waterdisappeared, as its mission was accom-plished and its divine work done Butthe memory of the New river, thatwas caused by a sand bar below Yuma
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