Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-12-11

horses. Concrete comes in very suit
apie ior the remainder of the floor.
Inc narrow strip in front, if laid with
IT, Keeps rats at defiance. Rats are al.
ways sure OF something in the stable
stalls. but they will not venture there
unless they are free to shelter in the
floor beneath.
Fig. | is a cross-section of a floor
such as we are describing. 1t shows
building IS feet wide inside. 1t NAV
safely be more; to make it less is not
advisable. The stable, as well as the
cowhouse and pigstye, should, as we
nave already said, be without covered
drains inside. AS far as practicable
one should make an open channel
serve to carry away liquid matter
from the stable. There is never SO
much urine from horses as from the
COWS, however; but there is usually
more fall given in the stalls of the STA.
Dles than in those of the cowhouse,
and the stances for the geldings have
to be floored in such a way that the
stallngs may be readily concentrated
and led to the gutter. 1t is some
times necessary, however, to make
use of short lengths of these
Fig represents the cross-section
of good
Double Cowhouse.
The cows face the walls, their beds
~ lstR hAf..
from the wall to the edge of the
grip" The beds are almost level in
this direction. They have more or less
incline the other way, in accordance
with the general rake of the building,
but as little as can be given. A glazed
fire-clay trough sits on the floor in
front of each COW. The troughs are
kept back from the wall about the
breadth OF brick, so that the ami.
mails, when in the act of using. may
not damage their horns against the
wall. The grip" is 81 inches broad.
6 inches deep at the side next to the
cattle stances and from inches to 4
inches alongside the central passage
The bottom of the grip" has a dip OF
l y inches from the one side to the
other. and lengthwise as much fall as
will quickly lead fluid matter to the
outlet provided for its discharge. l,
sometimes happens that the cowhouse
may be too long to admit of the chan
nels being run continuously or on the
same grade the whole length of the
, building. Were the floor in genera
r given a good rake or incline from
one end to the other there would b,
= no difficulty in giving a fairly lonl
stretch to the grip" Its conforma
+. ton and smoothness enable it to clea
b. itself quickly of liquid matter. But a
we have indicated, 1t is not advisable
a to give a building OF the kind much o
a hang lengthwise. else the COWS viii
|. have tilt that way when lying. Thei
beds we have advised to be made a
! level as is practicable from wall {
, grip" and this holds good with r.
a gard to their cross-section. too. 1t wi
:, be noticed from the figure that tn
- passage up the center of the cowhous
is a little lower than the COW stand
:, on each side. This is in order TO Civ
- the cows a better position when cri
. les are about. The travises or div
a sions between stalls are OF concret
and between three and four inche
thick. Each stall. we need hardly adj
:, holds two COWS. A cowhouse. finishe
:, as have been describing. and prope
a ly ventilated. does not call for niue
:, Improvement. one would think
!, The cross-section OF
II A Double Plostye
IS Is represented in Fig. 3. Concrete
d. again much in evidence. as will
s. seen. The beds are of brick. howeve
" They are raised few inches abo'
lie the general floor level. Where tn