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days to become fouled by the spattering manure unless a wide 

 walk is left behind the cows, or a deep manure gutter is provided. 

 Any manure on the walls must remain to be unsightly and a 

 reproach to the manager or be scrubbed off. ' It should be re- 

 membered too that fresh manure contains a slimy substance from 

 walls of the cow's intestines which renders it sticky. On the 

 early-day log stables fresh cow manure was regularly used as a 

 mortar to plaster up the cracks between logs and chinks where 

 it would withstand weathering for several months. On the 

 wall behind the cow it will remain until scrubbed off. Such 

 work is expensive in time and wholly non-productive. 



FiQ. 62. — A substantially built cow stable. Note the deep cement gutter and the cork 

 brick floor where the cows are to stand- 

 Many good dairjTuen provide deep gutters lor the manure 

 and wide walks behind the cows, and then prefer to have the 

 cows face inward. They then have their eyes away from the 

 bright light of windows. 



By facing the cows outward the walls are kept clean and the 

 floor between the two rows of cows may be cleaned far more 

 easily than the walls. Furthermore, the difference in the 

 standard of cleanliness for the walls and the floor renders it 

 many times more easy to keep a cow stable presentable when the 

 cows face outward rather than inward. If cows face outward 



