350 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



arrangement which will save much labor, economize the material, 

 and produce more uniform results. 



"A portable steam engine of five horse power provided, we 

 will arrange the animals, steam box, food, &c., as follows : 



"The stables are in the lower story, on each side of a feeding 

 floor ten feet wide. It would be more convenient to have room 

 behind each tier of animals, to pass a cart, or wagon, to carry off 

 the manure, than to throw it out at the side. A wooden track 

 should be laid in the center of the feeding floor, on which to run 

 the steam boxes. Two,liolding one hundred bushels each, should 

 be provided for one hundred cattle. One would be run under the 

 upper floor to be filled and steamed, and then moved away for 

 use; while the other could be run to the spot, filled and steamed. 

 On the upper floor, ihe straw cutter would be placed, provided 

 with a feeding apron to feed itself, with two bins overhead, one 

 for cut hay or straw, the other for meal and bran. Elevators, to 

 carry up the cut feed from the straw cutter to the feed bin, aa 

 fast as cut, would be necessary. 



"There would also be necessary, a water pipe connected with 

 a pump or an elevated reservoir, to furnish water to moisten the 

 feed. A tank might be placed overhead and filled by a force 

 pump. Then, in a scuttle through the floor, directly over the 

 steam box, there will be placed a cask or cylinder, three feet in 

 diameter and five feet long, without a bottom, but a bar across 

 the lower end, on which an upright revolving shaft will be set 

 in the center, provided with six arms, just long enough to turn 

 inside. This shaft will pass through a like cross-bar on the top, 

 and extending above enough to receive a pulley of the proper 

 size, to revolve it some six hundred times per minute. Now, a 

 spout will extend from the elevated feed bin to the top of this 

 cylinder, with a slide to open or shut it; also, a spout extending 

 from the meal or bran bin, so as to communicate in the Sfune 

 way with the cylinder, and a water-pipe, also, furnished with 



