. 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 . CONTINUOUS FEEDING-TROUGH, DIVIDED BY RODS ONLY. FEEDING-TROUGH DIVIDED INTO COMPARTMENTS THE COW BARN 43 terially, the labor required in keeping it clean; nevertheless,for valuable cattle and for careful methods the divided troughis to be recommended, and it is not in such general use as itshould be. This idea of sep
. 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 . CONTINUOUS FEEDING-TROUGH, DIVIDED BY RODS ONLY. FEEDING-TROUGH DIVIDED INTO COMPARTMENTS THE COW BARN 43 terially, the labor required in keeping it clean; nevertheless,for valuable cattle and for careful methods the divided troughis to be recommended, and it is not in such general use as itshould be. This idea of separate feeding and watering maybe less rigidly carried out by dividing the general feedingtrough so that two cows eat from the same compartment. Ifthis method is used, the outlet is best placed in the center • 4*-o* . PASSAGE S~\(FLOOR \\GJ TROUGH ^T STAXL-FLOOR .• •?•..•. s 9 * • VT 1 . • * » * *•.•. FIG. 10—FEEDING-TROUGH WITH FRONT EDGE LEVELWITH THE FLOOR SO THAT FEED PUSHED OUT MATBE READILY SWEPT BACK between the cows, where the water and feed will be drainedaway from each animal. For the commercial herd the continuous trough is pre-ferred, and to support this preference it is pointed out thatwhile cows may infect each other by eating and drinking outof the same receptacle, yet it is impossib
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