SELF-CLEANING STABLE. 



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This last style of grating was put into the stable of E. 

 T. Hayden, of Syracuse, N. Y., and gives him much satis- 

 faction. The advantage of this style is that the gutter is 

 water-tight to the top, and the grating is lighter and 

 cheaper for the absence of the angle-iron sill and legs. 

 This has been tested in so many stables that it may be con- 

 sidered as eminently successful. 



Fig. 13. 

 EXPLAHATION. -4, iron anchor; JS, grated floor; C, concrete; Z>, manger; 



It will be seen that this plan of stable completely saves 

 all the liquid and solid manure a matter of the highest 

 importance. In handling this manure it is carried directly 

 from the stable to the field, and thus prevents any loss by 

 leaching and evaporation in yard. The writer has found, 

 by practical figures, that the saving in manure, by this gut- 

 ter-system, and direct application to the field, amounts to 

 five dollars per cow per year. 



In order to still further reduce the labor of handling 

 the manure, and to make a more perfect distribution of it 

 over the field, the writer employs the manure spreader ; 

 and the labor is now so remarkably economized, that the 

 only manual labor relating to the manure, now performed, 

 consists in shoveling it from the gutters into the manure- 

 spreader no cleaning of stable ; no handling of manure, 

 except in loading it ; and the distribution is more complete 

 than can be done by hand-spreading. 



