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posing food. Some of the animals were within a few feet 

 of a blazing fire which was cooking their food. The same 

 Commission visited a suburban cow-shed which was large 

 and spacious, but rendered quite insanitary by a mountain 

 of manure so placed as to infect the incoming air. 



It has been urged that legislation for rural cow-sheds is 

 impossible, owing to the difficulty of carrying it out ; but 

 cleanliness is not as a rule expensive, and though the 

 building may be of the poorest type, patched, and lop- 

 sided, yet an impervious roof and floor, lighting, and 



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Fig, 132. — Single Byre (Henderson). 



cleanliness are capable of producing great changes, and 

 are certainly inexpensive. 



The condition of cow-sheds in an important dairy district 

 of Scotland has recently been fully described,* and this 

 may be taken as representing the real and not the ideal 

 cow-shed. A study of Henderson's valuable communi- 

 cation will prove both instructive and interesting. Fig. 132 

 is a section of a single byre, the stall partition being 4 feet 

 square, while the lateral space allotted each cow is 3 feet. 



* ' Dairy Buildings ' : Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society, 5th Series, vol. xi., 1899, by Mr. E. Henderson, 

 F.H.A.S. 



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