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up to a height of about two-and-one-half feet. In the 
first style it is expected that the steer put his whole head 
through between the uprights while in the second, only 
his nose. With the second it sometimes requires nice 
adjustment to have the slats just wide enough apart so 
that the steer can eat well and yet with no danger of his 
putting his whole head through and getting caught. 
Either rack may be made with the posts set in the ground 
or may be built on skids so as to be movable. Both racks 
are good and are in general use throughout the West. 
There seems to be little preference between the two. 
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Fic. 7. — Bunks for Feeding Grain or Silage. 
When grain is used, it is fed in bunks as shown in Fig. 
7. This style of grain-bunk is in almost universal use 
wherever grain is fed to cattle on a large scale. The 
dimensions indicated may be varied a little. Amateur 
