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and will repay in condition any extra trouble of this kind spent 

 upon them. The cost of well-arranged tool and harness rooms 

 will not seem great when we consider their convenience and the 

 saving which may be effected by them. " A place for everything and 

 everything in its place," is a maxim nowhere more important than 

 on the farm. On many farms much time that should be saved is 

 wasted in searching for tools left out of place and ill cared for. 



The following dimensions of farm buildings of a most suitable 

 kind maybe found useful, andare taken from McConneir s Notebook : 



DIMENSIONS OF DETAILS. 



Book.) 



(M'Connell's Note 



Stable. 



Length of stable travis, Qft. 



Height of travis at end near wall, yft. ; at heel-post end, 5ft. 6in. 



Thickness of division boards, i^in. ; width, 9111. 



Heel-post. 6in. drum, or 6in. x Ijin. 



Head-post, 6in. drum, or two pieces each 4in. x 2 J 



Width of hay-rack, i8in. ; height above floor, 9111. 



Width of manger, i8in. ; length, 2ft. 



Height of top of manger and rack, 3ft. 



Size of top and bottom rails of rack, 4in. x 3in. 



Size of spars, 2in. x ijin., or 2in. square. 



Depth of manger, gin. or loin. 



Width of windows for stables and cowhouses, 3ft. 6in. x 4ft. 6in. 

 in height. Glass, 2i-oz. 



Width of stable doors, 4ft. x yft. 6in. in height. 



Width of gutter in stable, i2in. 



Fall of ditto, ijin. to loin. 



Fall of iloor of stall, lin. in 3ft. 



Loose-box in stable to be twice the width of single stalls. 



Louvre-board ventilator for every four animals, to be 6ft. long x 3! 

 wide and 2ft. 6in. above ridging to be divided longitudinally 

 by boarding so as to have an up-going and a down-going 

 current of air irrespective of the direction of the wind. 



Cow-house. 



Length of stall from front partition to gutter behind, yft. for average 

 cows and yft. wide ; cSft. square for largest only. 



Length of travis, 4ft. ; height of travis, 4ft. to 5ft. 



Thickness of travis, if of stone slab, 4in. ; if of wood-head, heel- 

 posts, and top rail,4in. x 3in. ; boards, i^in. thick and 9111. wide. 



Length of feeding-trough, 3ft. ; width, 15111."; depth, ift. 



Width of gutter, jft. ; height of cow's bed above bottom of gutter, 

 Sin. ; height of gangway above bottom of gutter, 6in. Gutter 

 to have a fall of ift. sideways (towards the gangway), besides 

 the fall lengthways. Gangway to be inclined towards gutter. 

 Cows' beds are thus 3in. above level of passages. 



