CATTLE, HOW TO SHELTER. 
163 
cattle stables ; E E E E are the cattle stables, 80 by 30 feet each ; and if 
the cattle are placed 4 feet apart, will accommodate forty head of steera 
for fattening. 
To show another plan we give a diagram of a dairy barn fifty by one 
hundred feet. In the plan of the main floor a is a ventilating shaft, ana 
b feed shoots to basement through trap door which will bo shown in the 
plan of the basement. 
A Square CrosB Ecru. 
For a large number of cattle we know of no better form than a squai a 
barn for the center, with four wings running therefrom, each 30 feet 
wide by any desired length. In this arrangement the cattle might be 
placed with their heads to the wall, leaving a passage-way between each 
two rows, by which the manure might be taken up and carried away in 
carts. In some parts of the West cattle-feeding is carried out on an im- 
mense scale. Feeders are already beginning to ask, how best they may 
build stables to save cost in feeding, and at the same time place the cattlo 
in the best possible position for economical feeding. 
' A writer in the National Live Stock Journal , under the signature of 
••Alimentation,” gives data for a barn to feed 1,000 head of cattle. I ho 
principal objection to the plan is the concrete wall advised ^oi the b.ue 
ment. In a building of this size and weight, it will be found to be quit a 
unreliable in the West. The basement should be built of good solid 
■tone, or the best hard .burned brick. In lieu of this, if concrete must 
be used, the weight of tlie building should be on stone Dims. The detail* 
