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for food would fall upon their knees and injure 

 themselves. Most of the contrivances were not 

 easily adjustable, so that when the size, or 

 rather length, of the animals varied the stand- 

 ing room was either too short or too long. 

 Some had posts to sustain the stanchions; these 

 intercepted the light and prevented an unob- 

 structed survey of the animal. They gave the 

 stables a forbidding, dark, prison -like appearance. 

 The individual stalls should be, for smallish 

 animals, 3 feet 6 inches from center to center, 

 and 3 feet 8 inches for larger animals. The 

 partitions between the animals need extend only 

 far enough backward and upward to prevent 

 them from reaching each other with their horns. 

 When dishorning is practiced the partitions 

 may be lower than when it is not. 



MANGERS AND TIES 



The cross section of a floor and the skeleton 

 of a bracket upon which the mangers are built 

 are shown in Fig. 107. The mangers of cattle 

 stables should be easily movable. This can be 

 accomplished in the following way; Construct 

 one more bracket than the number of stalls 

 required in the line of mangers. Place one 

 of the brackets at the end and one inter- 

 mediate between every pair of stalls ; fasten 



