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which the animal occupies in the stable. The essential 

 feature is to have a stall of such construction as to keep 

 the animal out of her own manure when she lies down. 

 To accomplish this, it is necessary to have a manure 



FIG. 11. THE MODEL STALL. 



A stall of this type keeps the animals clean, and thus aids 

 greatly in producing good milk. 



drop behind the stall proper so that the feces and urine 

 are kept out of the bed of the stall as much as possible. 

 Most of the stalls widely advertised in the farm press 

 seek to accomplish this in one way or another, usually 

 by some arrangement by which the cow is forced back 

 when standing and drawn forward on lying down. In 

 Fig. 11 a type of stall is illustrated that accomplishes 

 this most successfully; the essential feature being a 

 2x3-inch wood strip nailed to the stall floor immediately 

 in front of the hind feet of the animal when in a stand- 

 ing position. When the animal lies down, she crowds 

 forward to avoid lying on this strip, and thus is out of 



