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HULL liAKN. 



Figure 31 shows the barn now used to accommodate the herd bulls. 

 Defore the removal and refitting, this building was used for stall-fed 

 sfeers, some calves and one or two bulls; its original location is shown 

 in Fig. 1. The barn is 25x94 feet, and contains eight box stalls about 

 10x1 (j feet with a feed room of the same size but not separated from 

 Ihe allev by a partition. Each stall is entered from the alley by a 

 four foot door fastened with a heavy wooden sliding bar. Leading 

 from the stalls to the yards there are two doors; the outer one is the 

 lull height of the opening, but the inner one reaches but two-thirds 

 the distance from the sill to the top of the casement. All doors are 

 made of double inch material. In the partition directly over the 

 manger there is a hinged door 2x2 feet, for each stall, to permit feed 

 being supplied from the alley; there is also an opening in the front 

 partition of each stall into which short pieces of iron pipe were fitted 

 to permit the animals being seen without opening doors. The 

 partitions between the stalls are double inch ; they are six feet high com- 

 ing down to within six inches of the ground. The alley and feed room 

 floors are made of concrete while the stall floors are of earth. A water 

 system has been installed by which there is a constant supply furnished 

 ill drinking basins, jilaced in the angle between the wall and the ex- 

 posed end of each manger; in this position they are not subject to 

 damage. 



On the south side of the building there are nine windows each con- 

 taining nine 8x10 inch lights; on the north side there are seven nine 

 light windows each GxS inches. The windows are jirotected near the bot- 

 tom by iron bars. Each pen has an adjoining yard of the same width 

 as itself, except the one beside the feed room which is tAvice as wide; 

 the yards are 3G feet long. The yard fences were built of old II/2 inch 

 fence material from which the decayed ends had been removed. This 

 material was placed vertically on one side of the posts and two strings 

 of 2x12 inch plank horizontally in the opposite side to prevent the 

 animals from pushing the upright boards off. These horizontal planks 

 forming steps are a safeguard by which an attendant could get out of 

 the yard easily and quickly should occasion demand it. In handling 

 a vicious bull a cable is used. This cable is stretched from a post at 

 the front of the feed manger through the box stall and across the yard 

 and is then attached to a post eight or ten feet high fastened to the 

 fence. A chain with snap is suspended from this cable by a ring run- 

 ning on it. The animal is fastened to the chain before being loosened 

 from the manger and the opposite is done in securing him again for the 

 night. The cable should not be low- enough or the chain long enough 

 for the bull to reach the ground with his head. In this way the vicious 

 bull can exercise and is always fastened. 



Through the use of these facilities all the mature bulls can be kept 

 in one building, whereas, heretofore, they were badly scattered about. 



