KEEPING ONE COW. 



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above, making a tight box stall, that between the pig-sty and shed 

 is only built four feet from the ground, leaving the upper part 

 open. A floor is laid at a hight of six feet ten inches from the 

 ground, which provides storage room for hay above. I would 



Fig. 19. PLAN OF COW-SHED, ETC. 



suggest, as an improvement to this plan, that the whole be built 

 two feet higher, making the long posts fourteen feet instead of 

 twelve, and the short ones ten instead of eight, thereby securing 

 more room above. There would then be sufficient room for the 



Fig. 20. PERSPECTIVE VIEW. 



storage of over two thousand pounds of clover hay. Of course the 

 provision I have made for a pig is outside of the question under 

 consideration, but in view of the fact that wherever a cow is kept, 

 a pig may also be profitably raised and fattened on the skim-milk 



