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1. Single close sheds, having stakes along the wall, (wherea trough is made lor containing their food), at the distance of20 inches or 2 feet, to which the cattle are fastened. Thetrough is filled from the outside by openings opposite to everytwo stakes, covered with flap boards or shutters, which openand shut on hinges, or let up and down in grooves. Thecattle enter from the opposite side, and there is a passage be-hind them. (See Plate VIII.)

2. The same mode of construction observed, and the housesmade double, with the heads of the cattle along each of theoutside walls, and the passage in the middle, entering fromthe gables.

Houses constructed as above are found the cheapest, asholding more cattle, in less room, than any other but areobjected to, as exposing them to cold, from the want of tight-ness in the coverings or shutters where the food is admitted,and in some cases, from tire difficulty of access to them, owingto situation, w T et weather, or snow.

3. To remedy those defects, it has been suggested, thatthe cattle should be ranged in the same way as in the singleclose sheds, with the difference only of having a passage fora wheel-barrow left between their heads and the wall, for thepurpose of giving them their food within the building. Thisis certainly the preferable mode wherever cattle are fed installs; and has in numerous instances been adopted.

4. Feeding-houses may have as many double rows of stalls,running from the one side wall to the other, ns are suf-ficient to contain the number of cattle wanted, as in PlateVII; but the cattle in the different rows are not to look ateach other. In this manner the access to the troughs andstalls may either be quite through from both sides, or fromone only, with openings for light, air, and, if wanted, forfood, from the other side. It must be observed, that wherefeeding passages are made between two rows of cattle, theyshould be so covered as to prevent those on the one side

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