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passage was a door leading to the dairy-house, 

 which was on the building line 150 feet away. 

 The four spaces made by these passages were 

 each subdivided into ten stalls five feet wide. 

 Two doors on the north and two on the 

 south gave exit for the cows. I had placed 

 my limit at forty milch cows, and I thought this 

 stable would furnish suitable quarters for that 

 number. If I had to rebuild, I would make some 

 modifications. Experience is a good teacher ; but 

 the stable has served its purpose, and I cannot 

 quarrel with the results. The chief defect is in 

 the distribution of water. The supply is abun- 

 dant, but it is let on only in the kitchen, whence 

 it is supplied to the cows by means of a hose or 

 a barrel swung between wheels. 



In the kitchen are appliances for mixing and 

 cooking food, and for warming the drinking 

 water in winter. Nelson and I discussed the 

 sketch plan given below, and he found some 



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fault with it. I would not be dissuaded from 

 my views, however, and Nelson had to yield. I 

 was as opinionated in those days as a theoretical 

 amateur is apt to be ; and it was hard to give 



