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built on the following plan (figure 11), which shows 

 a complete arrangement, enclosing a square yard, and 

 which will be isolated from other buildings. It consists 

 of thirty-three loose stalls for cows and eight pens for 

 calves and bull, in the front, on each side of the entrance 

 gate. Each stall is six by eight feet, and separated by 

 boarded partitions four feet high. The shed is nine feet 

 high in the front, seven feet in the rear, is twelve feet 

 wide, and ninety or 100 feet long. The roof is of boards. 

 The frame is made of posts set in the ground, with a two 



Fig. 11.— PLAK OF CATTLE SUED. 



by four inch plate and prders of the same size where 

 needed. There is a feed passage leading from a room 

 in one end (J), for preparins: the feed which traverses 

 the whole length. There is a feed trough in each stall, 

 and a bar or pole is fastened along the whole range of 

 stalls, eiditeen inches from the top of the front partition, 

 by which the cattle are prevented from approaching the 

 front too closely, and mounting the feed troughs, or put- 

 ting their feet into them. The cows are kept loose in 



