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their needs aud entirely preventing the many bad habits so frequently 

 acquired by the pail fed calf. Very young calves, under three weeks 

 of age, may acquire the sucking habit despite this device if placed in 

 a box stall with other calves before they have learned to take meal. 



RACK AND MANGER FOR SHED FEEDING. 



Except where experimental work is in progress and individual records 

 are desired, it is very often more satisfactory to feed groups of animals 

 loose rather than in individual stalls. This method is particularly appli- 



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Fig. 37. 



cable to the wintering of young heifers and stockers, and also to the 

 fattening of baby beeves, and even more mature steers. In Fig. 28 an 

 "enclosed exercising shed" is shown on the extreme south end of the 

 large dairy barn; this used to be the old beef cattle barn. During the 

 past winter the over crowding of cattle forced us to equip a part of this 

 exercising shed to finish a bunch of ten baby beef cattle from weights 

 of about 700 to 1,000 pounds. A part of the shed at the end next silo, 

 24x24 feet, was partitioned off on two sides by yard fencing, a feed rack 

 enclosed the third side and the end of the barn the fourth. Alleys were 

 left on both sides of this feed yard for the passage of cattle from the 

 main barn to the shed. 



When it came to building the feed manger and rack we found it took 

 considerable time in figuring and trying out, to get them exactly right 

 for the purpose intended, hence we furnish a sketch of the equipment as 

 shown in Figure 37. 



The manger, whicli is built of 2 inch material, is sixteen inches wide on 



