T,4<'> THE MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF CATTLE 



not be furnished in the stalls according to the attendant 

 circumstances. 



The aim should be to have the feed room located 

 so as to reduce the distance of conveyance of the food 

 to the cattle. In rectangular stables the feed room may 

 usually be conveniently located near the center but on 

 one side of the building. The chaffed feed may con- 

 veniently fall into this apartment from the loft overhead 

 in which it is cut. The roots when pulped may be 

 pulped in the apartment for roots, but when pulped by 

 machine power this will be done more conveniently in 

 the feed room. In this room the mixing of the meal and 

 cut feed, or of the roots and cut feed, or of all three, may 

 be done. Of course, where none of the feed is chaffed 

 a feed room is not an absolute necessity. 



The root cellar may usually be most conveniently 

 located on the ground floor of the stable, but in a base- 

 ment stable with a bank on one side, the root cellar may 

 be made in the bank. Space is thus saved in the stable, 

 but such root cellars, though easily protected, are dark. 

 When the root house is located within the stable it 

 should be placed so as to be conveniently accessible to 

 the feed room. The walls may be of stone or concrete 

 or wood. In cold climates it may be necessary to line 

 the siding with tar paper, and use the same with flooring 

 above and under the joists overhead. Light also should 

 be admitted and provision made for ventilation. 



Theoretically the best arrangement that can be 

 made for the storage of meal is to put it in bins above 

 the stable and so located that different kinds of meal may 

 be drawn from chutes coming down into the feed room. 

 In practice these chutes are not always used where they 

 have been constructed, the meal being kept in small bins 

 in the feed room and renewed from time to time. The 

 use of bins overhead is much dependent on the amount 

 of labor involved in putting the meal into the storage 

 bins. 



