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passage was a door leading to the dairy-house, 
which was on the building line 150 feet away. 
The four spaces made by these passages were 
each subdivided into ten stalls five feet wide. 
Two doors on the north and two on the 
south gave exit for the cows. I had placed 
my limit at forty milch cows, and I thought this 
stable would furnish suitable quarters for that 
number. If I had to rebuild, I would make some 
modifications. Experience is a good teacher; but 
the stable has served its purpose, and I cannot 
quarrel with the results. The chief defect is in 
the distribution of water. The supply is abun- 
dant, but it is let on only in the kitchen, whence 
it is supplied to the cows by means of a hose or 
a barrel swung between wheels. 
In the kitchen are appliances for mixing and 
a cooking food, and for warming the drinking 
water in winter. Nelson and I discussed the 
sketch plan given below, and he found some 
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fault with it. I would not be dissuaded from 
ee my views, however, and Nelson had to yield. I 
___- Was as opinionated in those days as a theoretical 
_ amateur is apt to be; and it was hard to give 
