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tight. If there is any place in the barn that should 

 be kept scrupulously clean, it is the mangers in 

 front of the cows, over which they must breathe 

 for the greater part of their lives. 



All the partitions that are needed between cattle 

 is one just large enough to keep them from hooking 

 each other, or getting at each other's allowance of 

 food. 



The cattle always show to best advantage in barns 

 with the least possible amount of woodwork be- 

 tween them. Twenty years' experience in exhibit- 

 ing cattle at fairs has taught me that the most 

 effective display is made in a tent where the cattle 

 are simply tied to a 2 x 4 rail fastened to stakes driv- 

 en in the ground, and the rail being about a foot 

 above the ground, with no partition or anything be- 

 tween them or about them in any way. In order to 

 economize room in stables and stand the cattle 

 closer together, some little barrier or partition di- 

 viding the stalls is necessary. The partitions are 

 three feet six inches apart. If four feet can be given 

 to each cow, they will require no partition whatever, 

 if fastened by a halter, or as described further on. 



In the illustration on page 130 will be found my 

 idea of stall and manger with partitions. The par- 

 titions are made of one and one-half and three- 

 quarter inch galvanized gas pipe as shown, the ends 

 imbedded in cement. A three-quarter inch pipe at 

 c braces the partitions sideways. Hanging to the 

 pipe oo is a board bb that separates the mangers, 

 but does not quite touch the bottom of the manger, 

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