The Farmer's magazine . manger for turnipsor other food, and d the gutter for the passage ofurine. The arrangement and constraction of both thebyres, C C, being similar in eveiy i*espect exceptthe dimensions, the foregoing description will suf- * Sarking is the Scotch term for the board-ing on the roof of a building, to which the slatesare fastened. 126 THE FARMERS MAGAZINE, fice for both. The hyve which forms the east sideof the steading is eighty-three feet in length, andcontains ten stalls, each eight feet in width. Thisbyre accommodates twenty cows, two in each stall,and the other sixteen.
The Farmer's magazine . manger for turnipsor other food, and d the gutter for the passage ofurine. The arrangement and constraction of both thebyres, C C, being similar in eveiy i*espect exceptthe dimensions, the foregoing description will suf- * Sarking is the Scotch term for the board-ing on the roof of a building, to which the slatesare fastened. 126 THE FARMERS MAGAZINE, fice for both. The hyve which forms the east sideof the steading is eighty-three feet in length, andcontains ten stalls, each eight feet in width. Thisbyre accommodates twenty cows, two in each stall,and the other sixteen. Each house has two doorsfour feet in width, opening to the roadway in front,besides the doors in the interior communicatingwith the straw barn and turnip-store; and thereare two windows in the side wall three feet cattle are supplied with turnips in winter andspring, and with green clover in summer, from theroot-house D, which is common to both byres, aswill be perceived by an inspection of the Plan. I^r^.2. The feeding-house, E, appropriated to the fatten-ing of oxen for the butcher, differs but very littlem construction from the C, situated inthe same range of building; it immediately adjoinsthe straw-barn on the west side, being divided fromit by a partition wall, in which is a door for carryingthe straw used as fodder along the passage I. Thisapartment is of precisely the same length as that onthe opposite side of the straw-barn, and accommo-dates the same number of animals, namely floor, roof, stalls, &c., being in every respectsimilar to those of the cows byres, need not furtheradverted to in this place. The cattle in this houseare supplied mth turnips from the adjoining apart-ment D, at the west angle of the north range, con-veyed in a wheel-barrow along the passage beforethe mangers. This feeding-house and one of thebyres are, therefore, very conveniently situated be-tween the turnip store at one extremity, and thestraw-barn at the oth
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