Coic-Kceping hy Farm Labourers. 
539 
" No horse is allowed to be put into the pasture. 
" If any tenant should be without a cow he is not allowed to take in a 
strange cow, as underletting his part ; but if any of the others are rearing 
a calf from their own cow, providing the two agree, and the others do not 
object, the calf may be entered instead of the cow. 
" Xo cow to be admitted without knobs on the horns. 
" Each tenant to keep his cow out fioni the pasture from the middle of 
April to the middle of May, to allow the grass to spring. 
" Each tenant to put on to his lot for hay, the manure made from his cow 
every season. 
"Xo tenant is allowed to mow any part that is being grazed for the 
season ; but each tenant to cut and keep down the thistles, &c., on his own 
lot before they seed. 
"A barren cow to be kept out from the field during the time she is uneasy 
and troublesome to the others." 
One of the best cow-houses I have seen is shown in the accom- 
panving plan of a cottager's cow-house and pigsty (Fig. 3), as 
erected in Shropshire, on the estate of Lord Powis. The cost, 
including materials and labour, and excluding cartage, which 
is done by the farmer and would cost about 3/., is 38/. 14^. 
Fig. 3. — Plan of Coitagers Cow-house and Pigsty on the Estate of 
the Earl of Powis, in Shropshire. 
CRICK W^ULS 
ri/- 
'! HAf B^r 
-7:0- --i-J:9 
mw HOliSE 
6.0 1 
D 
- S.i- 
r' 
The walls of the building are of 9-inch brick work, in mortar. 
The floors are paved with hard burnt bricks, and proper drains 
are laid, the bed of the cow-house sloping to the drain grate, 
as shown on the plan, and the pigsty outlet and calves' cots 
sloping to the centre, where 8-inch drain grates are laid. 
A sewage tank a few yards from the cow-house receives the 
liquid, which is used on the grass-land. The windows in the 
cow-house and calves' cots are of the kind termed hit-and-miss 
ventilators, consisting of wooden bars, or laths, fixed 2 inches apart 
vertically over the opening, with similar bars framed together, 
and made to slide on the inside, so as to regulate the 
ventilation. The window opening in the gable-end wall, next 
