100 The Agriculture of Pembrokeshire. 
suitable roof put over it and a gutter pitched all round, so as to 
prevent the pit being flooded by the drainage of the yard. All 
the manure must be brought direct from the byres into it ; the 
urine and liquid part will be collected in a small tank at the 
end of the gutter of the byre, and this will also be conveyed as 
occasion required — that is, when the small tank was full — to 
the pit and thrown over the more solid parts. When the time 
comes for carting this manure out, the sloping ends of the pit 
will enable the carts to be backed right into it, for convenience 
of loading. After the manure has been carted away, the bottom 
of this pit will be a convenient place to put the culm and other 
ashes from the hviuse, and these will provide an absorbent layer 
under the manure which can be used with it. 
Figs. 2 and 3. — Longitudinal and Transverse Sections of Manure Pit. 
The incline at each end extends one-third of the length of the pit. 
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60 feet long by 30 feet wide, and capable of holding some 400 loads of manure. 
The accompanying sketches (Figs. 2 and 3) will illustrate, the 
form of the covered pit. Of course iron pillars can be substituted 
for the stone or brick ones indicated. 
This shed would only occupy the centre of the yard and 
would not interfere with the free circulation of air to the sheds 
around In this respect it would be preferable to covering in 
the whole yard. A practical builder has informed me that a 
shed of the size indicated in the sketch — capable of storing 
some 400 loads — could be erected anywhere for 90?. The tank 
for collecting the urine and liquid part would be placed in a 
corner of the byre at the lower end of the gutter and would be 
of the simplest character. A hole dug and bricked, bottom and 
sides, leaving a capacity of one cubic yard would do for a large 
