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securing all the points above mentioned, and which has 

 been found very convenient and satisfactory in every 

 way, IS arranged as follows : 



The mam building is fifty feet by twenty-four, and is 

 intended to hold thirty cows in two rows; but so far only 

 fifteen have been kept in it on one side, leaving a wide 

 feeding passage, through which a one-horse wagon or 

 light cart can be driven with loads of green fodder used 

 in the summer when soiling the cows. Along the middl*} 



Fig. 9.— PLAN OF cow STABLE, YARD, kTSTD PENS. 



of the barn is the feeding trough, eighteen inches wide, 

 and the feeding floor, B, is on the north side of it. Then 

 comes the platform for the cows, C (figure 9). This is 

 five feet wide, and slopes two inches in this distance to 

 keep the floor dry. Back of this is a manure gutter, : 

 fourteen inches wide and eight inches deep, and then a^ 

 walking platform four and a half feet wide, making up 

 in all half of the width of the barn-. The southern wall 



