Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-12-05

horses. Concrete comes in very s1it
able for FShe remainder Of the door
The narrow strip in front, II laid with
/ it. keeps rats at defiance. Rats are al
ways sure OF something in the stable
stalls, but they win not venture there
unless they are free to shelter in the
floor beneath,
Fig. ! is a cross-section OF q door
such as we are describing, It shows
a building is feet wide inside. It may
safely De more; to make it less Is not
advisable The stable, as well as the
cowhouse and pigstye, should. as we
have 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 Sc
much urine from horses as from the
cows, however; but there is usually
more fall given in the stalls Of the sta
bles than in those of the cowhouse,
and the stances for the geldings have
to be floored in such way that the
stalings may be readily concentrated
and led to the gutter 1t is some
times necessary, however, to make
use of short lengths of these.
Fig. 2 represents the cross-seotiop
of a good
Double cowhouse.
The cows face the walls, their beds
or lairs being z feet 8 inches long
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 anil
mai5, 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
1h 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. It
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 We're the floor in general
given a good rake or incline from
one end to the other there would be
no difficulty in giving a fairly long
stretch to the grip" Its conforma-
lion and smoothness enable it to clear
Itself quickly Of liquid matter. But as
we have indicated, 1t is not advisable
% give a building Of the kind much of
/ hang lengthwise, else the cows will
nave tilt that way when lying. Their
beds we have advised to be made as
evel as is practicable from wall to
grip" and this holds good with re-
yard to their cross-section, too. 1t will
70 noticed from the figure that the
up the center Of the cowhouse
8 a little lower than the COW stands
IN each side. This is in order to give
he COWS better position when crit
cs are about The travises or divi-
ions between stalls are Of concrete,
nd between three and four inches
kick. Each stall, we need hardly add,
Iolds two cows A cowhouse, finished
S / have been describing, and proper
Y ventilated, does not call for much
one would think.
The cross-section of
A Double Pigstye
J represented in Fig. 8. Concrete is
gain much in evidence, as will be
cen. The beds are of brick, however.
hey are raised few inches above
10 general floor level. Where this