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Care must be exercised with stalls of this kind where the cow is 

 not fastened at the head, that they are not made too wide. Stalls 

 three feet from center to center are about right for 1,000 pound 

 cows; if they are made six inches wider than this there is danger 

 of the cow turning in the stall by swinging her head around under 

 the gate partition. These stalls are 5 feet 3 inches from manger to drop 

 and about the same adjustment as to length and width of stall, for 

 larger or smaller cows, will applv as in the case of the stall shown in 

 (1) Fig. 33. 



STALLS FOR BEEF OR DAIRY COWS. 



Figure 35 shows a stall, in duplicate, built to accommodate the cows 

 of our pure bred beef herd, animals varying in weight from 1,000 to 

 1,()00 pounds. In general, these cows suckle their calves, but sometimes 



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CLLIS. 



Fig. 35. 



they are milked. For animals of this size with strong, lusty calves 

 suckling them, a plain, strong stall was needed. The construction is 

 identical with that of (1) Fig. 33, except for the partition and the 

 general dimensions. The partition is built back squarely about two- 

 thirds the distance from the manger to the gutter. This brings the 

 upright oak 4x4, which is guttered slightly to receive the ends of the 

 partition planks, back just in front of the cows hook or hip points. 

 By giving these stalls a width of 3 feet 6 inches or even 4 feet from 

 center to center, in a few instances, calves can readily suckle the large 

 cows or they can be milked as desired. The present fastening is a 

 swing stanchion; heretofore this class of cattle was fastened by chains 

 around the neck, with a ring sliding on an iron bar bolted to the parti- 

 tion on one side of the stall. By the old system of tying it was more 

 difficult to fasten the animal which could move forward and back and 

 was not held so nicely in place as by the swing stanchion. 



A number of other kinds of stall divisions, mangers and ties in use 

 are not as satisfactory as those heretofore described. On the west 

 side of the dairy barn — see Fig. 28 — there is a row of mangers 

 much like that shown in (2) Fig. 33, but differing in that the cow is 

 fastened around the neck by a tie attached to a chain running across 

 the stall and bolted to the partition on both sides; this is not as con- 



