No. 12. 



Ring Bone. 



181 



and bottom are raised sufficiently high to 

 cause the water to run into the reservoir. — 

 When the animal has drank and moves off 

 the platform, it rises together with the lever; 

 and the bucket descending into the well by 

 its own weight uncoils the rope from the 

 wheel and causes the other rope to coil upon 

 the axle ; the moveable end of the lever and 

 platform has now risen to its highest position, 

 ready for another animal to move upon the 

 platform and raise a supply of water to drink, 

 in the same manner as the one had done pre- 

 viously, (already described) and so on to any 

 extent required. Each apartment may be 

 cleaned while the animal which had imme- 

 diately before occupied it has gone to drink. 

 By giving the animals a portion of superior 

 food immediately after they have all returned 

 to the stables from drinking, they will soon 

 get accustomed to pass from the stables, draw 

 water, drink and return to the stable without 

 any personal attention whatever. By placing 

 the well at the opposite end of the building 

 from the cistern, ia aline with the middle of 

 the entrance, forming the lever with an an- 

 gle over the well, to move on a fulcrum, at 

 the nearest corners of the building, — one le- 

 ver will answer for the animals in both ranges 

 of stables. 



Explanation of Fig. 31. 



A A A A are the four corners of the base- 

 ment story of a barn forty by one hundred 

 and twenty feet. B B the entry eight feet 

 wide and eight feet high with a double door 

 at each end to close an opening six and a half 

 feet square. A range of window glass is 

 placed over each door to admit light when 

 the doors are closed. Hay is received into 

 the entry at 1 1 1 1 from the vertical flues 

 above, and stairs terminate at 2 2 or 3 3 from 

 the floors above, the centre of which are over 

 4 4. 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 are under the sides of 

 the barn floors. C C C C are two ranges of 

 stables with doors in the sides between A A 

 A A, equal in number to half the number of 

 animals to be accommodated in the stables. — 

 Each range of stables has two glass windows 

 over5 5 5 Stoadmit light and air when re- 

 quired. The dotted lines DE D E show the 

 position of the rail- ways for the muck- wag- 

 ons to run on. E E shows the position of 

 the two houses or sheds for the wagons to be 

 in when not in use. They n<ay also be used 

 to contain the contents removed from stables 

 during the time the ground may be unfit to 

 haul It to the field or meadow. F shows the 

 position of the cistern. G the well, and A G 

 A the lever with the fulcrum at A A. The 

 dotted lines around between 6 6 6 6 6 6 show 

 the edges of the platforms, and H the reser- 

 voir between them. The axle is placed be- 

 tween 7 7 and the wheel is between 8 8. The 

 stables should be rather lower than the entry, 

 and higher than the surface opposite out side 

 of the building. 



By adopting the foregoing plan and having 

 the animals well supplied with dry litter for 

 bedding at night, (which can be placed under 

 the manger during the day) and admitting an 

 additional supply of air, by opening the dodra 

 and windows when that from the flues and 

 stairways is insufficient, a purity and equal- 

 ity in the temperature may be obtained in 

 the atmosphere of the stables, far superior to 

 plans in general use. P. 



Dec. 12lh, 1837. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



The Ring Bone. 



It not unfrequently happens that that noble 

 animal, the horse, is rendered entirely use- 

 less by affliction with the above disease, from 

 a want on the part of the owner of a proper 

 knowledge of the treatment necessary for its 

 removal. The following is an effectual rem- 

 edy, and has been known to cure many cases 

 of long standing. If used in the first stages 

 of the disease no vestiges of it whatever will 

 be lefl:. It has never, to my knowledge, be- 

 fore been in print, but believing that what- 

 ever tends to the interest of man, or the me- 



