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The Coimiry Gentleman's Magazine 



NEW METHOD OF FASTENING CATTLE. 



THE Americans are ever on the hunt after 

 novelties, many of which are undoubted 

 improvements on old forms or practices, while 

 others have little but their newness to recom- 

 mend them. We have recently noticed an 

 automatic cattle stanchion, patented in May 

 last by Gilford & Robertson, N.Y., which, 

 promising to be useful, we have thought 

 worthy of engraving. The fastening of cattle 

 with a chain or rope round the neck, with a 

 ring sliding up and down an upright standard, 

 is common and easy of application, but it is 

 not economical of space. The inventor of 

 the stanchion claims for it that it does away 

 with ordinary stanchions out of which cows 

 frequently • backed before they could be 

 fastened. 



The superiority of a swinging over a sta- 

 tionary stanchion is, says the Scientific 

 American, apparent to the most casual ob- 

 server. This stanchion the inventor styles 

 the, "Swinging, Self-Closing, Self-Fastening 

 Cattle Stanchion." 



In the common stationary stanchion, it is 

 very difficult for a majority of animals to rise 

 without making several attempts, but in these 

 the yielding of the stanchion allows the 

 shoulders of the animal their natural forward 

 movement, so that the animal can rise as 

 easily as though it Avere not fastened. The 

 stanchions are hung in such a manner as to 

 allov/ a sliding or sidewise movement, if de- 

 sired, by simply shortening the upper and 

 lower transverse bars. The space for the 

 animal's neck is adjustable to any desired 

 width, the bars being slotted transversely 

 where the bolts pass through them, allowing 

 them to be moved either right or left. The 

 stanchions are self-closing and self-fastening, 

 thereby saving a vast amount of time, and 

 any one of them can be instantly unhung 

 without disturbing the remainder. 



Fig. I is a view, from the stable side, of a 

 section of a row of finished stanchions, one 

 open and one closed. It also shews the 



manner of hanging. Fig. 2 is a vertical 

 section of fig. i, shewing the manner of hang- 

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ing, also the means of preventing the animal 

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by the insertion- of the loose pin, /. It also 

 shews the construction of the feeding manger, 

 devices for limiting the swing, stanchion, 



