CHAPTER XXI. 



EQUIPMENT FOR CATTLE FEEDING 



Figure 14 is taken from a photograph of a very 

 satisfactory open shed and feed storage building. The 

 shelter consists of a building twenty by twenty-six feet, 

 twenty-foot posts, with two wings each twenty by thirty 

 feet. This makes a shelter twenty by eighty feet. 

 The upper floor of the middle portion is used for the 

 storage of feed, which is fed out into the bunks below. 

 Another bin ten by twenty feet occupies the lower 

 floor of the main building, which is used for the storage 

 of corn. The yards and shelter are designed to accom- 

 modate about fifty cattle. The paved lot adjoining is 

 twenty-four by eighty feet, the bricks are laid flat on 

 six inches of gravel, the latter being packed by the tramp- 

 ing of horses until a solid surface was secured. Cement 

 wash was applied after the bricks were laid. The curb- 

 ing consists of curb-stones eighteen inches wide and 

 three inches thick set edgewise into the ground. Ad- 

 joining the paved lot is a yard containing about one- 

 half acre in which the hay rack is located and where the 

 cattle are allowed to remain a large part of the time. 



FEED-BUNK WITH PLATFORMS FOR MUDDY LOT 



The floors are made by placing five white oak 

 sixteen-foot two-by-fours on edge, and laying a floor 

 on them of two-inch plank cut in six-foot lengths, making 

 a floor six by sixteen feet. The two-by-fours are 

 beveled at each end like sled runners, and a hole bored 

 in the end of the middle plank for a clevis so that the 

 floor can be dragged around. 



The bunk should be constructed of oak, as it is the 

 most durable and the cheapest in the end. The bed 



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