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clear— M.C., Manure cellar, 11 by 274, 64 feet in 
the clear ; walls 18 in. thick— A. W., Area walls. 
Fig. 4.— Ground Plan of Stalls, Carriage, Tool, 
and Garden Truck Rooms, Workshop, etc. — A, 
Carriage room, 16 by 32, less corner out 6 by 10 
—B, Garden truck 104 by 124—C, Tool room, 9 
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Fig. 4.—Glound Floor Plan 
by 124 —D. Work shop, 10 by 18— E, Harness 
room, 6 by 114— F, Feeding hall, 6 by 18, and 3 
by 114 passage— G, G, Cow stalls 9 by 114, and 
44 by 114—if, if, if, Horse stalls, each 44 by 12 
feet— I, Passage, which may be used for a stall— 
J, Lock-up for stable furniture, 3 by 5— k, k, Feed 
and grain bins— l, Stairway to loft— m, m, Trap 
doors to vegetable cellar and to hay loft— o. Lad¬ 
der for fowls to enter their roosting and laying 
room— w, g, Urine gutter. Trap doors to manure 
cellar where wanted. 
Fig. 5.—Chamber or Second Story Plan. 
Fig. 5.— Second Floor, containing : Q, Hay loft, 
and corner boards 14 in.; uprights covered with 
4 planed and rebated pine boards clear of defects; 
rafters covered with thick hemlock boards, and 
overlaid with one cross charcoal tin ; 3 inch tin 
leaders to convey the water from the roof; 
moulded cornices to the cover and pediments, 
supported by 3 inch brackets; 
two pair outside and 7 single 
doors, made with narrow, clear 14 
tongued and grooved boards, 
strongly battened, and planed 
both sides—three of the doors to 
have sashes, 2 lights 9x15 glass ; 
two pairs of loft shutters made 
in same manner ; doors hung by 
welded straps and hooks, and se¬ 
cured with hooks, bars and locks, 
as required; eight windows, 8 
lights each, 9x14 glass in first 
story, with batten shutters, hung 
by butts, and secured by bolts ; 
five windows, 8 lights, and four 
windows, 6 lights, 9x14 glass, in 
second story; round and octagon 
blind ventilators in all the pedi¬ 
ments ; four 6 -light windows, 10 x 12 glass to 
cellar, with inside shutters; door and window 
frames made of 14 inch plank with heads and 
casing of the same; floors of milled spruce 
plank; stall floor overlaid with 2 -inch spruce 
plank, with suitable manure traps and urine 
gutters; divisions in the horse stalls of 2 -inch 
plank, hip posts 6 feet high 6 inches diameter; 
partitions and divisions in cow stalls of 14 spruce 
plank 4 feet high; all feed boxes made with milled 
spruce plank capped with iron plate ; main and 
room partition, of milled spruce plank 
planed both sides, strongly secured 
in the middle by a 2x4 strip; all in¬ 
terior doors made with 4 -inch tongued 
and grooved boards battened, and 
planed both sides, hung by H L 
hinges, and fastened with thumb 
latches and bolts; stall sides lined 
with tongued and grooved boards 6 
feet high and capped ; feed bins with 
milled plank; hay and feed slides and 
stall ventilators of boards tongued 
and grooved, and secured by bands ; 
suitable tight stairs to loft, and strong 
step ladder to cellar; a plank ladder 
for the fowls to enter their room in 
loft; fowl room fitted up with roosts 
and laying boxes, lattice over the 
31 by 33 feet— R, Bed room, 94 by 12— S, Fowl 
room, 12 by 12— T, Grain bin, 44 by 44 by 6 feet 
— u, Hay slide, 14 by 44— V, V, Ventilators from 
the cow and horse stalls to the pediment window 
— W, Roosts for 25 hens—X, Entrance for the 
fowls from the ladder— y, y, Windows to receive 
the hay in the loft. 
Specifications of the materials and labor required to 
erect the building according to the plans : 
Excavations made to receive main, and dwarf 
walls ; stone work laid in lime and sand mortar; 
division wall between the cellars in hydraulic ce¬ 
ment ; hard brick walls around the cellar win¬ 
dows ; fowl room lathed and plastered complete. 
Timber, sound spruce and pine, sawed and strong¬ 
ly framed and braced in every part; sills, posts, 
and plates, 4x9 ; framing beams 4x8; girts 4x6 ; 
first tier beams 3x9, 20 inches apart; second tier 
beams 3x8, 16 inches between centers, with one 
tier cross bridging over carriage room; rafters 
2x8, 30 inches apart; valley rafters 2x10 ; stud¬ 
ding 3x4, set 2 feet between centers; water table 
windows, etc., complete ; harness room fitted up 
with hooks, saddle and harness pins; manure 
area covered with 2-inch plank battened, and a 
trap-door strongly hung. All the outside of the 
building, tin roof and leaders, and the outside 
doors inside, and inside of wooden shutters, to be 
painted two coats of linseed oil and white lead. 
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What Shall be Done with the Dogs ?. 
WISCONSIN DOG LAWS. 
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Copies of the following have been forwarded 
by six or eight subscribers in Wisconsin, who 
will please accept our thanks. By thus “ keep¬ 
ing the subject before the people ” it is hoped 
sufficient attention will be awakened to secure 
the passage of efficient Dog laws in every State. 
A comparison of the different acts published, will 
give suggestions and data for improvement in 
subsequent statutes. 
AN ACT to regulate and license the keeping of dogs. 
Sec. 1. Every owner or keeper of a dog shall on or be¬ 
fore the first Tuesday of April in each year, cause it to 
be registered, numbered, described and licensed for one 
year from that date in the clerk’s office of the city, incor¬ 
porated village, or town where he resides and shall pay 
for such license one dollar for every male dog, six months 
old and upwards, and three dollars for every female dog 
six months and upwards. The license shall be issued 
and the money received by said clerk, who shall pay the 
same into the treasury of said city, incorporated village, 
or town, to be used and appropriated with the other 
funds therein ; and the clerk shall receive for each li¬ 
cense so issued and collar stamped the sum of ten cents, 
out of said funds. The treasurer shall keep an accurate 
and separate account of all sums received and paid out. 
under the various provisions of this act. which acCotlnt 
shall always be open to the inspection of any voter of the 
place. 
Sec. 2. The owner of every dog so licensed shall keep 
a collar around its neck distinctly marked with the name 
of the owner registered, numbered, and the year for 
which such dog is licensed, which date shall be stamped 
on said collar by the officer issuing said license, and for 
the purpose of enabling such officer to so stamp the col¬ 
lar with the year for which he shall issue a license ns 
aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the proper authorities of 
cities, incorporated villages, and towns to furnish such 
officers with a proper stamp for such purpose. 
Sec. 3. Any person may, and every police officer, con¬ 
stable or marshal, shall kill or cause to be destroyed, all 
dogs going at large and not licensed and collared accord¬ 
ing to the provisions of this act; officers shall receive 
from the city or town treasurer, twenty-five cents for 
each dog so destroyed and buried by them. 
Sec. 4. Whoever shall remove the collar from the neck 
of a dog so licensed and collared, without the knowledge 
and consent of the owner, or steal a dog so licensed and 
collared, or shall alter the stamp on such collar, shall be 
punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 
Sec. 5. The owner of any sheep or lambs suffering 
loss by reason of worrying, maiming or killing thereof by 
dogs, may present within thirty days after such loss shall 
come to his knowledge, to the Mayor or Alderman of the 
city, the President or Trustees of any incorporated vil¬ 
lage or Supervisors of the town wherein the damage is 
done, proof thereof, and thereupon the said officers 
shall draw an order in favor of the owner of said sheep or 
lambs upon the treasurer of said city, incorporated vil¬ 
lage or town, for the amount of such loss. The treasur¬ 
er shall register all such orders in full at the time of their 
presentation, and shall annually on the first Tuesday in 
April, pay all such orders in full if the gross amount re¬ 
ceived by said city, incorporated village or town, under 
the provisions of this act, up to such date, after deducting 
all sums previously paid out under such provisions be 
sufficient therefcr ; otherwise the treasurer shall divide 
said amount, after deducting as aforesaid, pro rata among 
said orders and in full discharge thereof. 
Sec. 6. Upon drawing an order as is provided in the 
foregoing section, the citv, incorporated village, or tow n 
may recover against the keeper or ow ner of any dog 01 
dogs concerned in doing the damages, the full amount of 
the damages done. 
Sec. 7. Whoever keeps a uog not registered, number¬ 
ed, described and licensed according to the provisions of 
this act, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars to the use o( 
the town, city or village wherein the dog is kept. 
Sec. 8. Owners of dogs may at any time have them li¬ 
censed until the first Tuesday in April succeeding, upon 
payment to the clerk of the sums provided in the first 
section of this act, but such payment and license shall 
not exempt them from the penalties of the preceding sec¬ 
tion on any complaint already made. 
Sec. 9. No new license for the then current year shall 
be required upon the removal of any licensed dog into 
any other town, or city, or incorporated village, unless 
the same be required by some by-law or ordinance passed 
under the provisions of the twelfth section of this act. 
Sec. 10. The Mayor and Aldermen of any city, Presi¬ 
dent and Trustees of any incorporated village, and the 
Supervisors of each town shall require all dogs not li¬ 
censed and collared according to the provisions of this 
act, to be destroyed by poison or otherwise as they may 
ordain, and shall enforce all the penalties herein provided. 
Sec. 11. Any officer of any city, town or incorporated 
village, who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties 
imposed upon him by this act, shall be punished by fine 
not exceeding twenty dollars for every twenty-four hours 
which he shall so neglect or refuse, which shall be paid 
into the treasury of such town, city or incorporated'vil¬ 
lage. 
Sec. 12. The City Council of any city, the trustees of 
any incorporated village, and the supervisors of any tow n 
may make such additional by-laws and regulations con¬ 
cerning the licensing and restraining of dogs as they may 
deem expedient, and may affix any additional penalties 
not exceeding ten dollars for any breach thereof, said by¬ 
laws and regulations shall relate only to such dogs as are 
owned or kept in such city, incorporated village or town 
not conflicting with the provisions of this act, and the an¬ 
nual fee required for a license shall not exceed one dol¬ 
lar in addition to the sum required by the first section of 
this act. 
Sec. 13. All fines and forfeitures imposed as a penalty 
for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, or 
neglect of any duty imposed by the same, shall be pres¬ 
ented by complaint before a Justice of the Peace of the 
proper jurisdiction, and no mere technical objection to the 
complaint shall be alleged to defeat a prosecution so 
commenced, and prosecutions for fines and forfeitures un¬ 
der this act shall be in the name of the State of Wiscon¬ 
sin. 
Sec. 14. In all cases under the provisions of this act, 
when any person or corporation shall be entitled to re¬ 
cover damages, the same shall be recovered in a civil 
action, prosecuted according to the laws of this State, 
and in cases where the action shall be prosecuted by a 
city, the action shall be prosecuted by the Mayor or chief 
officer of such city as plaintiff, and when the action shall 
be prosecuted by an incorporated village, the action shall 
be in the name of the principal officer of such village, as 
plaintiff, and when the action shall be prosecuted by a 
town, then the chairman of the Board of Supervisors shall 
be the plaintiff. 
Sec. 15. All acts inconsistent with the provisions of this 
act are hereby repealed ; Provided, That nothing in this 
act shall be construed as to repeal chapter 48 of the Re¬ 
vised Statutes, and said chapter 48 is hereby declared to 
be and to remain in full force. 
Sec. 16. This act shall take effect and be in force from 
and after its passage and publication. 
