Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-03-27

horses. Concrete comes in very suit
able for the remainder of the floor.
The narrow strip in front, If laid with
1t, 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 may
safely be more; to make 1t less is not
advisable. The stable as we'll 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 SO
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-sectiof'
of good
Double Cowhouse.
The COWS face the walls, their beds
or lairs being z feet 3 inches Ions
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 a 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
inches alongside the central passage
The bottom of the grip" has dip Of
" 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 cowhoust
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
given a good rake or incline from
one end to the other there would bt
no difficulty In giving a fairly Ions
stretch to the grip" Its conforma
ton and smoothness enable 1t to cleal
itself quickly of liquid matter. But al
we have indicated, it is not advisable
to give building of the kind much o.
a hang lengthwise, else the COWS will
have tilt that way when lying. Theil
beds we have advised to be made al
level as is practicable from wall tt
grip" and this holds good with re
gard to their cross-section, too. 1t will
be noticed from the figure that tn,
passage up the center of the cowhous'
is little lower than the COW stands
on each side. This is in order to Civ,
the COWS better position when crit
les are about The travises or divi
sions between stalls are of concrete
and between three and four inches
thick. Each STALL we need hardly add
holds two cows. A cowhouse, finished
as / have been describing, and proper
ly ventilated, does not call for mucl
improvement, one would think
The cross-section of
A Double PIgstye
Is represented in Fig. 3. Concrete
again much in evidence, as will b.
seen. The beds are of brick, however
They are raised few inches abov,
the general floor level. Where thil