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stylo is the ease of feeding and cleaning. It may also be used 

 for .vatering in the barn. Some objections are made to this 

 stylo of construction on account of the chance it affords for 

 one cow to rob another of a portion of its feed. Partitions 



TYPES OF MANGERS 



FIG. 41. Types of mangers. 



of sheet iron or concrete are sometimes used to overcome this 

 difficulty. 



133. Ties. The cow should be fastened so that she lies 

 down exactly where she stands or a little forward if possible. 

 The most objectionable way is to tie a cow to a manger so 

 that she must back up to lie down. This results in covering 

 the cow with filth. The most common ties in use are various 

 forms of stanchions. There is no better way to keep the cow 

 clean than to tie her with a stanchion, properly constructed, 

 and stand her on a platform of the right dimensions pro- 



