. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . in her own manureand foul herself. This the stanchion, more rigid than the tie,largely prevents, and cattle soon become accustomed to thestanchion and are entirely comfortable in it. An illustrationfacing this page shows pipe stall partitions arranged for thetie. To hold the stanchions a pipe stall is the ideal arrang
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . in her own manureand foul herself. This the stanchion, more rigid than the tie,largely prevents, and cattle soon become accustomed to thestanchion and are entirely comfortable in it. An illustrationfacing this page shows pipe stall partitions arranged for thetie. To hold the stanchions a pipe stall is the ideal arrange-ment; it is sanitary, sightly, and gives excellent ventilation,though care must be used in its construction to avoid allunnecessary bolts and dust-catching crevices, for theserequire constant cleaning. The pipe partition between thecows has always been considered almost necessary in or-der to prevent one cow from stepping on another, but inseveral stables these have been omitted by owners whofelt that this theory would not be proved in some instances it has been and in others not. Whilethe animal is injured less by the proximity of her neighborthan would be supposed, yet such injuries do occur, andthough the partition pipes may be omitted for the Grade herd. THE COW BARN 37 they certainly should not be omitted in the housing of cattlewhich are at all valuable. The distance in width from stall to stall is 3 ft., 6 in. foraverage cows; 3 ft. for young stock, and where special roomis required for oxen or cattle of unusual size the stalls maybe made 3 ft., 8 in. in width, but this is seldom the mature animal the stall floor should measure from 4ft., 6 in. to 5 ft. in length, and from 4 ft. to 4 ft., 6 in. foryoung stock. For Jerseys and Guernseys the stall length is4 ft., 6 in. to 4 ft., 8 in., and for Holsteins 4 ft., 8 in. to 5 ft.,the length being the distance from the edge of the gutter tothe stall side of the concrete ridge below the stanchion which
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