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Louden Tubular Steel Bull Pen — Continued 



In the Louden Bull Pen, "safety is first" — safety for the herd, safety for the bull and safety for human 

 life. In its construction the best quality of heavy steel tubing is used — the lower ends set firmly in solid 

 cement and the upper ends held securely together by the Louden Malleable Iron Connections described in 

 this catalog. It is provided with a heavy bull-proof gate made of the same material and held shut by a 

 pair of bull-proof latches, both of which have to be lifted out of the catches before the gate will open. 



Fig. 1 164 represents a Louden Bull Pen fitted with two mangers — a tilting manger made of wood 

 with galvanized steel ends and the Louden Corner Manger made of concrete protected by bars of tubular 

 steel. It will be understood, of course, that two mangers are not to be used at the same time, and the two 

 are shown here to better enable the purchaser to decide which kind to use. The tilting manger is made of 

 2-inch planks securely held together by heavy steel angles secured to edges of the galvanized steel ends. 

 It is mounted on a pivot bar set in one side of the pen so it may be easily tilted in for feeding, as shown in 

 the cut, or tilted out for filling and cleaning. 



The Louden Corner Manger is a new departure and we believe it is the best manger ever devised for a 

 bull pen. It is all inside of the pen instead of being mounted in one of the sides where it will be out in 

 the alley a part of the time. There is nothing loose for the bull to play with and keep up an incessant racket. 

 It is stronger and more durable and is more easily kept clean than a wooden manger. It takes less room 

 because it occupies only one of the corners instead of projecting into a central part of the pen. 



Louden Bull Pen with Corner Manger 



Bull Pen Stanchion Patented Dec. 7. 1915. and July 25, 1916 



Fig. 1165 is an inside view showing the Louden 

 Corner Manger with a Bull Pen Stanchion open to 

 receive the bull's head. It gives an especially good 

 inside view of the manger, showing the high sides with 

 cut-out for lower end of stanchion, the curved top-rail 

 connected to the top-rails of the pen and the vertical 

 railing which encloses the manger to hold hay, and to 

 prevent the bull from getting into the manger with 

 his feet or soiling it. It also shows the smooth 

 rounded corners and the absence of cracks or crevices 

 to catch and hold dirt. 



Fig. I 1 65 also gives a good view of the Louden 

 Bull Pen Stanchion which is used only to hold the bull 

 while cleaning, his head being securely held in the 

 manger while the attendant is in the pen or the gate 

 is open. At all other times the bull should be given 

 the freedom of the pen. With the stanchion in one 

 side of the pen, the bull's head would be out in the 

 alley where he could injure a person who might hap- 

 pen to get too close. This cannot happen with our 

 Corner Manger. 



The Louden Bull Pen Stanchion consists of two 

 bars of 1 "a O. D. tubular steel hinged to clamps on a 

 lower rail having its ends connected to aajacent ver- 

 tical posts or fillers, as well as embedded m tfie concrete 

 when the corner manger is used. The upper ends of 

 the stanchion bars are fitted with malleable sleeves 

 which slide on the top-rail, and with latches which 

 engage catches clamped on the top-rail, so as to hold the stanchion bars securely in closed position. The 

 hinges below and the catches above can be adjusted on the rails so as to set the stanchion bars wider 

 apart or closer together to suit bulls having different sizes of necks from the largest to the smallest. The 

 latches are protected by guards so it is impossible for the bull to open them with his horns. 



The manger gate is placed on the side of the pen next the alley for convenience in placing feed or a bucket 

 of water in the manger, or for cleaning it while the bull is in the pen. The bull can be shut out from the 

 manger by closing the stanchion bars. The latches of the stanchion can be easily reached from the outside 

 of the pen. In everyway it is convenient and easily managed. The corner manger also makes the pen 

 stronger, while a tilting manger set in one of the sides tends to make it weaker. 



Some one has said that the phrase "Sunny Disposition" was coined by a dairyman who observed the 

 contentment of his bull in a clean, light, well-ventilated Louden Bull Pen after seeing another bull in 



Fig. 1165 



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