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of feeding and cleaning should be reduced to a minimum by correct 

 internal design, and also by situating the byre in a convenient position 

 with regard to food-stores, manure heap, etc. 



In this connection may be mentioned overhead feed, litter, and 

 manure carriers, which are now in such general use in Canada and the 

 United States, and save an immense amount of labour. 



Fig. 131. 



The general arrangement of such a carrier gear is illustrated in 

 Fig. 131. The carrier is self-emptying and, if the rail be laid with a 

 slight slope towards the 

 dung-stead, will run out 

 by gravity and empty auto- 

 matically by the action 

 of the trip stop TS (which 

 may be placed at any 

 desired point on the line) 

 on the trigger T, as shown 

 in Figs. 132 and 133. 

 After emptying, the carrier 

 may be pulled back by 

 means of an attached rope, 

 the end of which has been 

 retained in the hand. 



The better types of carrier are provided with a raising and lowering 



