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It has been their habit for many years to put iu a large 

 area of sowed com, which was cut and put up for cming 

 in stocks, and afterwards housed or stacked near the 

 bams. This year they have a larger area than usual, a 

 large part of which they put down in pits for winter 

 feeding. This matter of pitting or ensilaging com 

 fodder has been carefully investigated by them, and they 

 have made, this year, two pits under the cow-bam floor. 

 These pits, figure 12, are twenty-two feet long, nine feet, 

 wide, and fifteen and a half feet deep, side by side, with 

 a two-foot wall between them. They are walled aU 



cow. STALLS 



FEEDING FLCDR 



COW STALLS 



Fig. 13.— FLOOE PLA5 OP BASS, CATTLE STABI.ES, ETC. 



aronnd, and cemented water-tight. They would answer 

 well as cisterns. These two are just buUt, but there is 

 an old one, ten feet wide, fifty feet long, and seven feet 

 deep, which is under the feeding floor. The location of 

 these pits is shown in the accompanying plan, figure 13. 

 The cow-bam is one hundred and twenty feet long, by 

 thirty feet wide. The feeding floor is ten feet wide, and 

 the standing space for the cows is the same width on 

 each side. There is room for thirty-six cows in this 

 stable, np to the bam floor. The floor, the stalls, and all, 

 from side to side, was taken np for the filling of the pits, 

 but was relaid. 

 At the time I was there the work of filling was going 



