Archive image from page 113 of The dairyman's manual; a practical. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy dairymansmanualp01stew Year: 1888 108 THE DAIKYMA2'S MANUAL. built 013 the following plan (figure 11), which shows a complete arrangement, enclosing a square yard, and which will be isolated from other buildings. It consists of thirty-three loose stalls for cows and eight pens for calves and bull, in the front, on each side of the entrance gate. Each stall is six by eight feet, and separated by boarded partitions four feet high. The shed is nine feet high in the front,
Archive image from page 113 of The dairyman's manual; a practical. The dairyman's manual; a practical treatise on the dairy dairymansmanualp01stew Year: 1888 108 THE DAIKYMA2'S MANUAL. built 013 the following plan (figure 11), which shows a complete arrangement, enclosing a square yard, and which will be isolated from other buildings. It consists of thirty-three loose stalls for cows and eight pens for calves and bull, in the front, on each side of the entrance gate. Each stall is six by eight feet, and separated by boarded partitions four feet high. The shed is nine feet high in the front, seven feet in the rear, is twelve feet wide, and ninety or 100 feet long. The roof is of boards. The frame is made of posts set in the ground, with a two Fig. 11.—PLAN OF CATTLE SHED. by four inch plate and girders of the same size where needed. There is a feed passage leading from a room in one end (A), for preparing? the feed which traverses the whole length. There is a feed trough in each stall, and a bar or pole is fastened along the whole range of stalls, eighteen inches from the top of the front partition, by which the cattle are prevented from approaching the front too closely, and mounting the feed troughs, or put- ting their feet into them. The cows are kept loose in
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