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A convenient covered barnyard. 



This provides not only for the required protection of both animals and manure 

 but affords also an excellent grain ckamber where grain can be stored for conve- 

 nient use. Under the side roof is also afforded a chance for the storing of small 

 tools and a great variety of articles that are continually in the way when stored 

 about the farm buildings. It also provides splendid protection to animals when 

 housed at night during the summer, this roof protecting them from heavy showers 

 in the night and affording an excellent opportunity for exercise in i he winter, 

 as all the sides, except that toward the south, can be protected against cold wind3 

 by being temporarily boarded up. 



A cheap shelter for manure. 

 Many stables are so situated that by adding a cheap lean to, as shown 

 in fig. 4, " a receptacle for caring for the manure is easily provided. 

 The outside boarding of the lean to should be, for a part of the way at 

 least, put on horizontally and hung in the form of flat doors, so that the 

 manure can be easily loaded on a waggon standing on the outside of the 

 building." 



The unsatisfactory results attending the use of manure sheds and 

 covered yards have probably been due to the fact that these structure* 



