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thrifty until the first of September, when they are placed by 

 themselves on pasture and fed all the corn they will eat. In 

 cold weather they are shut up on a lot close to the pen. They 

 are marketed about Christmas and show an average weight of 

 two hundred and fifty pounds. 



C. C. BUELL, 



KOCK FALLS, WHITESIDE COUNTY. 



How to Make a ClieaiJ Cow Stable. 



Being compelled to build cheap or not at all, I adopted the 

 following plan, after some preliminary trials. I have my stables 

 three in a row, and a few feet from each other. The front 

 opens toward a spacious yard used for stacking hay, and mis- 

 cellaneous purposes, this space lying between stables and house. 

 Tilts rear opens into the cow yards. Each stable is twenty- 

 fite feet wide by thirty-three feet long, sixteen feet lumber work- 

 ing nicely, without sawing, to construct them. These stables 

 accommodate twenty-two cows each, though if I had large 

 cows, I should arrange for only twenty. They are constructed 

 as follows : Joists 4x4 for corner and side posts, each about 

 ten feet long, setting them into the ground so as to make the 

 stable at the eaves about eight or eight and a half feet high. I 

 arrange for two rows of cows, with the feed alley in cen- 

 ter, seven feet wide. In the line of the stanchions, I use 2x6 

 posts (five of them) extending to the rafters, laying out the 

 plan so that these shall form part of the stanchions, and plac- 

 ing the outside posts to correspond. I board up the outside with 

 common boards, put on horizontally, and leaving space the 

 width of the center alley for double door opening to the front, 

 and also space for a good wide cattle door at each corner of 

 the rear end. 



I have a small, low, center door in the rear for throwing out 

 the refuse from the hay or feeding alley. I use such additional 



