PLAN OF CATTLE SHED. 



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straw and feed, and an alley as large for the purpose of taking out 

 the manure. It is a good plan when there is abundance of straw for 

 litter to fill up the pens once a day and let the manure collect for a 

 month, or in fact for the whole feeding season, as it is kept hard 

 trodden and is not at all disagreeable. In this case the stalls are 



FRAME FOR CATTLE SHEDS. 



enclosed and made large enough for the cattle to turn around, and 

 the animals are left loose. This plan is very common on the large 

 cattle farms in England. The plans here given represent one of 

 these English cattle sheds, and may be worthy of study, as showing 

 the system in common use there. The whole width in the clear is 

 eighty-one feet. If the pens or stalls are made to run across the 



SIDE VIEW OF FRAME. 



building this will afford space for five rows of pens having four pas- 

 sages between them, the cattle standing on the outside rows with their 

 backs to the ends of the building. A square shed of this size will 

 hold fifty head in five rows of ten each, and each one having a looss 



