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stalls for 14 does and box stalls for three, and a milking 

 room for eight does at a time. A milk house and wash 

 room is connected with the milking room by an enclosed 

 passage. For a larger herd this plan could be easily 

 doubled, or adapted to any required number of animals. 

 With the lielp of its accompanying key the plan will 

 probably explain itself in all details except for the 

 arrangements of the three kid pens C C C. 



Pens for Feeding Kids. — If a group of kids are 

 given their milk by hand, either through nipples on a 

 " gang feeder " or in pans, they must be handled in three 

 compartments if one is to avoid a riot at each meal hour. 

 The plan illustrated would be used as follows: the three 

 pens C C C would ordinarily stand open into one pen 

 by the connecting doors. At meal times first drive all 

 the kids into tlie further pen and close the door. Bring 

 the milk and the feeding equipment into the middle pen 

 and get everytiiing ready. Then let the kids into that 

 pen four or five at a time, and when they are fed, put 

 them out into the third pen and close its door. 



If the kids are normally strong, lusty, and hungry, it 

 is hard to get them through an ordinary door, they crowd 

 so eagerly. To prevent this difficulty, make this door in 

 two halves, hinged separately. Open only the upper part 

 of the door and the kids w^ill leap over. It is easier to 

 control their onrush in midair than when they are all 

 crowding and shoving on the floor. 



