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Australia. This system ensures that the cow shall lie with her head 

 over the manger. 



A byre fitted up to suit the system of tying under discussion is 

 illustrated by Fig. 130. The mangers are shaped so as to allow of 

 easy cleaning, and the feeding passages are raised above the general 



Fig. 140. 



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Fig. 142. 



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Fig. 141. 



floor level to facilitate the filling 

 of the mangers. This, however, 

 is open to the objection of making 

 the cows appear small to possible 

 purchasers walking along the feed 

 passage. 



The stall fittings of this byre 

 are largely of hardwood. Each 

 stall division consists simply of a 

 length of 1\ inch wrought-iron 

 piping, bent to suit, and having 

 one end bedded in the concrete 

 of the floor, and the other end 

 passed through a hole in a 2" by 6" 



SKETCH of SPRING 

 Fig. 143. 



vertical hardwood post and fixed by means of a back-nut on each side 

 of the post. 



These posts also serve to carry two 2" by 4" hardwood rails, running 

 the length of the byre, from which the stanchions are suspended by 

 short lengths of chain. The stanchions are attached to the curb of the 

 manger, at the bottom, also by short lengths of chain long enough to 



