Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-12-10

horses. Concrete comes In very suit.
able for the remainder of the floor.
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 will not venture there
unless they are free to shelter in the
floor beneath.
Fig. / is a cross-section OF floor
such as we are describing. 1t shows
a building Is feet wide inside, 1t may
safely be more; to make 1t 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 mafs 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-sectiop
of good
Double cowhouse.
The cows face the walls. their beds
or lairs being Z feet 3 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 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 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 II
sometimes happens that the cowhouse
may be too long to admit OF the chan
nels being run continuously or on the
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building. Were the floor In general
given a good rake or incline from
one end to the other there would be
no difficulty in giving fairly long
stretch to the grip" Its conforma-
ton and smoothness enable 1t to clear
itself quickly of liquid matter. But as
we have indicated, 1t is not advisable
to give building Of the kind much Of
hang lengthwise, else the COWS will
have tilt that way when lying. Their
beds we have advised to be made as
level as is practicable from wall to
grip" and this holds good With re-
gard to their cross-section, too. It wiz
be noticed from the figure that the
passage up the center or the coWhouse
Is a little lower than the COW stands
on each side. This is In order to give
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 l have been describing, and proper
ly ventilated, does not call for much
improvement, one would think.
The cross-section of
A Double Pisstye
Is represented In Fig. 8. Concrete is
again much in evidence, as will be
seen. The beds are of brick, however.
They are raised few inches above
the general floor level. Where this