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COW-HOUSES. 



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space, which may be fitted up either with cribs or with stone troughs. 

 B B indicate two spaces for receiving roots, each interval being 8 feet 

 wide. They are separated from the troughs, or cribs, by means of 

 strong wooden partitions, for which a thin party-wall is sometimes 

 substituted, from 3 to 3 J feet in height. D D, the doors, are sufficiently 

 wide to admit a cart, to be backed in, and turned up. Over this low 

 partition the turnips, or other roots, are thrown to the beasts, c c c 

 are passages 4 feet in breadth, behind the animals, for the purpose of 

 removing the dung by means of the doors that are respectively marked 

 E E E. Should the peculiarities of the situation require, or render it 



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Fig. 202. Plan and Section of Cow-House. 



a a, root and straw bins, b b, double stalls, c c, mangers, d d, gutters, e e, dunging- 

 passages, ff, feeding-passages, g g, windows. 



In the section a a are the travises or stall divisions ; b b, the mangers ; c c, the gutters. 



convenient, the large doors just noticed may be situated in the back of 

 the feeding-byre, or ox-house. 



The advantages of the above plan are, a more commodious division 

 of the cattle than when they ara ranged in lines along the house, 

 instead of across it ; it also admits of the feeding of store and fatting 

 stock at the same time, for, if five feeding-cattle are placed on one side, 

 and a similar number of young beasts or milch kine are arranged on 

 the opposite one, the green tops of turnips or the spare leaves of 



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