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proper to describe the means of preserving their 

 health. 



35. Cow-houses, or Byres. 



All that has been said on the necessity of room, 

 light, air, and ventilation, in stables, is also apphca- 

 ble to byres. In order to avoid prolixit}^ we will 

 describe a b3^re built by Mr. Jones, in the county 

 of Cardigaji, and which seems to afford a good mo- 

 del for buildings of this kind. The whole length of 

 the building is fifty feet, the roof shelving, its chief 

 height being fourteen feet, the lower extremities, 

 one seven and a half, the other six feet. A stone 

 wall, running up to the summit, parts the feeding- 

 house from the other and smaller apartment, which 

 is a receptacle for dung. ^Vidth of the feeding- 

 house, nineteen feet within-side. Stalls each twelve 

 feet long by four feet two inclies wide. Gangway 

 three feet and a half, at the heels and tails of the 

 cattle, leading from the doors, the first door beino- 

 for the cattle, the other for the attendants. Similar 

 doors at the opposite ends of the building. Run- 

 ning water in troughs, with racks and mangers. 

 The cattle lie on wooden platforms, perforated for 

 the passage of tlie urine. The urine runs, and the 

 dung is pushed through apertures in the wall, each 

 of which is two feet square, and one between every 

 two stalls. There are twelve wooden flaps, or win- 

 dows, to give light and air to each stall. The duno- 

 pit is about twelve feet wide, sunk some feet deep 

 in the earth, extending the whole length of the 

 building. The walls are built partly with stone, 

 and in part with wood, the roof with larch wood, as 

 an experiment of its durability in that exposure. 



According to JMr. I^awrence, the round or qua- 

 drangular form might, perhaps, either of them, be 

 more economical as to space and materials for a 

 building to contain a considerable number. The 



