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such cases. In this way cattle are frequently prevented from 

 fottening so expeditiously as they otherwise would do. Double 

 sheds are unquestionably the most proper, economical and con- 

 venient buildings. Make the cattle face one another, and leave 

 a space of four or five feet for the person who feeds them, to pass 

 with his barrow. 



Before each cow there should be a trough for feed, and a con- 

 venience for holding water, which may be filled by means of a 

 pipe from a cistern or well. The boxes for water may be made 

 of wood or stone. Above these may be placed a perpendicular 

 rack for hay. Calf pens should not be placed in the cow shed. 

 The floors must be laid in such a manner as to keep the animals 

 dry and warm. 



Dairy buildings should have three apartments, a milk room, 

 churning room, in which there should be a proper boiler, and 

 other conveniencies for scalding and washing the vessels, and a 

 place for drying and keeping them in, when they cannot be put 

 out of doors. The cheese dairy may also consist of tlie same 

 number of rooms, namely : the milk room, the scalding and press- 

 ing room, and the salting room. A proper temperature is of 

 great importance in a dairy. The situation must not be exposed 

 to too much heat from the sun in summer, or the coldness of the 

 air in winter. A northern exposure shaded by trees, and where 

 the sun has no influence, is the best. 



Farm sheds are extremely convenient and proper for various 

 purposes of the farm. They are cheap and simple in their con- 

 struction, and can be erected without much labor. They are 

 commonly made so as to lean against the walls, or other part of 

 buildings, the lower part being supported by wooden posts, or 

 stone pillars. In these may be preserved all the larger sorts of 

 farming implements from the effects of the weather, as well as for 

 the protection of young animals, when they are turned loose in 

 the farm yard. 



Root houses are necessary on every farm where young cattle 

 and cows are kept, in which may be placed carrots, cabbages, tur- 

 nips, potatoes, &c., for winter feeding. 



Poultry houses may be so contrived, that although covered by 



