CATTLE YARD — SHEEP BARN. 719 



STOCK BARN. 



My main stock barn is forty feet wide, fifty feet long, and 

 runs east and west. It is a good, high, two story barn. My 

 stable floors are very heavy, as my cows weigh from sixteen 

 to eighteen hundred pounds each. I use stanchions, and have 

 twelve on each side, giving ample room for these large animals. 

 My barn is boarded up and down, with bats over the joints, 

 planed, and painted with yellow ochre, and made warm and 

 comfortable. 



CATTLE YARD. 



I have a two acre barn yard, with a fresh spring in it a few 

 rods north of the barn, and on pleasant days I let the cattle 

 run here and to the spring for water. But nearly all the time 

 they are kept in a yard south of the main barn, entirely en- 

 closed with shed and other barns, to prevent the cold wind 

 beating upon them from any direction. In the center of this 

 yard I have a large straw stack, to keep the cattle busy, and it 

 affords them a chance to rub and lick themselves. They 

 gather round this, and also eat a little of it each day. They 

 scatter considerably more, and make lots of manure in the yard. 

 This yard is fifty by sixty feet, and is amply large to herd 

 twenty cows and save all the manure. 



SHEEP BARN. 



I have a little sheep barn that forms a part of one side of 

 the yard. It is sixteen by thirty-six feet. My horse barn is 

 on the other side, and is eighteen by thirty-two feet, with ten 

 feet shed roof. The roofs all run outside, so no water is allowed 

 to run from the eaves on barns or sheds into the yard, as I 

 have eave spouts on the barns to prevent this. I have a well 

 near the end of the main barn, and if it is very stormy weather, 

 I can pump water, letting it run into a tin trough through the 

 barn. The cattle can drink without moving from the stable 

 stall. There is another water trough in the yard, for the same 

 purpose. I have the cattle cleaned off once a day, with a 

 cattle card, and feed them hay, steamed, or corn fodder, all 

 they will eat up clean. Then I give them a two-quart measure 



