CHAPTER XVI 



DESIGNS FOR BULL-BOXES AND EXERCISE YARDS — SMALL BUTTER-MAKINQ 

 DAIRY — SMALL CHEESE-MAKING DAIRY 



Design for Bull-Box and Exercise Yard. — Fig. 147 is a perspective, 

 sectional view of a bull-box and its adjoining exercise yard. This design 

 of box is similar to that indicated in the plan of the steading reproduced 

 in the frontispiece. The box and feed passage have cement concrete 

 floors, the surface layer of which is divided into squares by V joints, to 

 prevent irregular cracking. A " single " sliding door (see Chapter X) is 

 fitted between box and exercise yard. The dwarf wall between feeding 

 passage and box is protected by a coping consisting of a 9" by 3" deal, 

 fixed by f " bolts with large washers built into the brickwork. The 

 manger is of zinc, or 22 gauge plain galvanised iron sheeting, supported 

 by a timber framework ; the cross-bar at the top prevents the bull from 

 climbing on to the manger, with his fore-feet, and looking over into the 

 feed passage. Ventilation is provided for by open eaves and roof ridge, 

 the latter being shielded by a curved, raised ridge cap. The windows 

 in the feed passage are of the drop-back type, and the door opening is 

 carried up to the eaves, so as to admit additional light and air. The 

 yard walls are built in Colonial or garden bond, the headers being shown 

 shaded. The level of the exercise yard is a few inches below that of the 

 floor of the box, and a strip of a few feet wide next the box is flagged. 

 The remainder of the yard may be surfaced with gravel. 



Small Dairy for Butter Making. — Drawings for a butter dairy are 

 reproduced in Fig. 148. 



The dairy there shown contains two apartments, viz. a working-room, 

 and a butter-and-milk room, in addition to a stoep or verandah, all 

 being under one roof. 



The working-room, 10 feet by 18 feet in size, might contain a churn, 

 separator, milk cooler, and butter worker, besides a few shelves on which 

 small utensils, separator parts, etc., may be placed till required. 



