They drew exact plans and figured out
with the girls' help how much lum
ber would be needed of each size, and^
so interested were they in the new en
terprise that they sat up to very un
dairymanlike hours. ,y*
Should Calve In Fail/
Cows -coming fresh in the fall, with
plenty of good, whoiesomq food, are
easier taken tJare of, aqd
ucts are more valuable.^^
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Th* Advanthgft of the HOarJdr Stall
Explamed-^-HoW ItCan,
jBe Built"
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The'Hoard' stall, explains' ,C.
Smith, 'of 'tfre lilichigan Agricultural
college, consists of a rack running
along in front of the row of cows far
enough from the side of the barn to
allow a six-fobt feeding alley, between
the five-foot high partition which con
stitutes the front of the rack and **the
side of the barn. On the cow side of
this partition,' some 24 indites above
the floor, is toe-nailed a horizontal
plank, 2x8 inches which forms the bot
tom of the rack. The side of the rack
nex( the cow is made up of pieces 1x6
inches running from the bottom plank
of the rack up to a 2x4 level with the
E I O E O W ST ATT,.
top of the partition and three feet dis
tant from it. These strips are nailed
on six inches apart, forming an open
rack into which the cow can insert
her nose for her coarse fodder.
The grain, is fed in a box 3% feet
long and one foot square, shoved into
toe stall from the feeding, alley through
a hole 16 inches square cut through the
partition below the bottom of the
feeding rack. The hole is up four
inches from the floor' ahd forces the
grain to the end of the box nearest the
cow.
