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bucket. A professor m> an agricultural college, 

 who had traveled in several states looking for 

 ideas to incorporate in a bani; toi be built for- 

 the college^ told me that he had not in a single 

 instance found the individual water devices in 

 good condition. 



Cows Drinking from Streams. — I am some- 

 times amused and at other times disgusted with 

 pictures of herds of cows standing in streams or 

 pools of water. The pictures are often pretty to 

 look at, but only stop to think what it means. 

 It means that the cow drinks from the source 

 that she has contaminated by her sewerage. 



The Cow Stalls.— The platform of the stalls 

 should be from 4% to 5% feet long from the 

 gutter to the manger. When there is to be more 

 than one row of cows, the platforms should be 

 made of different width or make them wider 

 at one end than at the other end of the stall so 

 as to give each cow a platform that fits her 

 length. The cows that can stand on a platform 

 4% feet long will need no more than three feet 

 in width, but a cow that needs a platform five 

 or more feet long will need 3% feet in width on 

 the platform. These widths of stalls will be 

 right for individual stalls of the Drown or Bid- 

 well pattern as well as for stanchions. 



The model stall used by the senior editor of 

 "Hoard's Dairyman" is a most excellent one 

 and should be investigated by anyone building 



