MODERN FARRIER, 



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vantage of any good fresh day, as it occurs, to add 

 to your stock of turnips in the barn. 



At right angles to the turnip barn stands the 

 feeding byre, constructed as follows. At the dis- 

 tance of about three feet and a half from the great 

 side wall of the byre, there are constructed on the 

 ground, in a straight line, ten troughs for feeding 

 ten large cattle ; these are of hevrn pavement on all 

 sides, and at tlie bottom ; and they are divided from 

 each other by divisions, or bridges, likewise of hewn 

 pavement. These troughs are so constructed, that 

 tiiere is a small and gradual declivity from the first 

 or innermost, to the last and outermost one ; and 

 the bridges separating them being made with a 

 small arch at the bottom, a nail or bucket of wtxter 

 poured in at the uppermost runs out at the under- 

 most one, through a stone spout passing through 

 the wall ; and a sv/eep w ith the broom carries off the 

 whole remains of the turnips, &c. rendering all 

 the troughs quite clean and sweet. The whole 

 food of the cattle is thus kept perfectly clean at all 

 times. 



In a line with the feeding troughs, and immedi- 

 ately over them, runs a large strong beam of wood, 

 from one end of the byre to the other, which is 

 strengthened by two strong upright supporters to 

 the roof, placed at equal distances from the ends of 

 the byre, and the main beam is again subdivided by 

 the cattle stakes and chains, so as to keep each of 

 the ten oxen oppo-^ite to his own feeding trough and 

 stall. 



The three and a half feet of space betwixt the 

 feeding troughs and outer wall of the byre, lighted 

 at the farther end by a glazed window, is the cattle- 

 feeder's v/alk, who passes along it in front of the 

 cattle, and, v/ith a basket, deposits before each of the 

 cattle the turnips into the feeding trough of each. 



To prevent any of the cattle from choaking on 

 small turnips, or pieces of large ones, as they are 



