THE BUILDINGS OF THK FA KM. 4,53 



Preparation of Food. Centralized as it is, with all the green fodder 

 on a level with animals and all the dry fodder hay and straw in the 

 barn overhead, its preparation for consumption is the next consideration. 

 It matters not whether the food is machine prepared or not, the principle 

 in the arrangement is not affected. Assume, however, for the sake of 

 meeting most difficulties, that machinery is used. Steam or horse power 

 will be necessary overhead, undercover, to drive straw cutter above, grain 

 crusher below, and root pulper below. The lower machinery should ad- 

 join one of the main passages for the sake of room, light, access with ma- 

 terials, and near to the green fodder ; the cut dry fodder drops from above 

 into an apartment beside the feed or mixing room. In the feed room ma- 

 terials are prepared for distribution in whatever form is considered best, 

 and, in order to assist this, as well as to be used for other purposes, the 

 boil-house should be close at hand. 



Distribution of Food. Now comes the beauty of centralizing every- 

 thing. With the feed-room now as our sub-centre, it is required to serve 

 every animal rapidly, easily, without personal danger, and without leav- 

 ing any food anywhere but in the proper place. In explaining the dis- 

 tribution consider that the whole mass of buildings consists of three sec- 

 tions : (1) The outside section containing some of the animals and all the 

 dead materials ; (2) the middle section containing the remainder of the 

 animals and all the prepared food ; and, (3) the inner section, which 

 alone is the store. Between the first and second sections there is a pas- 

 sage having on either side food access to every animal in tJie building. 

 Rails and a hand-car or two, if required, in this passage completes the ar- 



. Demerit for distributing food, with the addition of two or three shoots 

 from above to obtain hay and straw. 



Cleaning. The animals requiring daily removal of manure, that from 

 ; -up animals not sheep, calves, or bulls necessarily, or at least pro- 

 portion : j are arranged in strict accordance with economy of la- 

 :. and may be done by rail, l>v hand, or by barrow throwing the 

 mam, the low fence that separates the pit from the railv, 



IT.//' / a /"".'/ These should he central, and on the line of the 



great roads of the building,where waggon-loads, animals, or anything e 



i all live stork drink under COYCr. There should nls,, 

 Ighscale <>n the trad ito the feed-room, in order to check 



n per head when ne06ttaty, 



Any number and arrariirem'-nt of these ;i re 

 ild be required for poult r and bulls. 



