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The mangers rest on the floors. They are made of 

 planks 15 inches wide at the top inside measure, 12 

 inches at the bottom and 10 inches deep. The mangers 

 would call for more of size but that feed racks are used. 

 The floor on which the cattle stand varies in length to 

 accommodate those of different ages and of different 

 sizes. These variations run from 4 to 55^ feet. It in- 

 clines from I to 2 inches between the manger and the 

 drop and toward the latter. 



The feed racks are upright on the side next the 

 manger. The space between the slats is 6 inches from 

 center to center. The opposite side is close boarded and 

 slants inward and upward into the passage. The dis- 

 tance between the bottom of the rack and the top of the 

 manger is 183^2 inches, a space that is left to enable the 

 animals to take water as shown below, and to feed cut 

 food from the passages. 



The water troughs are in the passage in front of 

 the manger. They are raised sufficiently high from the 

 floor to admit of using the sloping cover of the trough 

 as a slide for conveying cut food or roots into the 

 manger. When drinking, the animals simply reach the 

 head forward over the manger. They drink at openings 

 in the trough made by pulling up the slides in the cover 

 of the same. The cattle are tied around the neck with 

 chains. At the farther end of the tie is a ring which 

 slides up and down on an iron rod bolted to the side 

 of the stall. The length of this iron rod is 2 feet 10 

 inches. 



The water supply is obtained from a well drilled 

 into the rock underneath the feed room to an endless 

 supply of water. It is pumped up by a windmill into 

 a circular tank 10 feet in diameter and 8 feet high, and 

 from thence it is conducted by pipes to where it is 

 needed. The tank is placed over the chaffing room. 

 Although only covered by straw in the winter, it has not 

 given any trouble through the freezing of the water in 



