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cows, and fattening cattle. In Plate X is given a plan andview of cattle stalls, taken from a model designed by MrErskine of Mar, which will probably be found among thebest hitherto used.

A manger of wood or stone, for holding their food, isplaced along the wall, under the heads of the cattle, with asmall declivity towards one end, to admit of being occasion-ally washed. It has wooden divisions which can be drawnup when required for washing. On the outer edge of themanger, and next the passage for feeding, are placed woodenspars or grating, which may be raised up either by pulleys,or hinged for opening when the food is put into the manger.

Instead of one manger running along all the stalls, someprefer to have a separate trough for each ox or cow to eatfrom, with a trough for water to each couple, supplied by apipe, or otherwise.

In large farms, where turnip fields are at a considerabledistance from the farm-steading, it is very expensive to car-ry the turnips first to the cattle, and then to cart their dungto the field. To remedy this inconvenience, Mr Walker ofWester Fintray has lately built, at half a mile’s distance fromhis farm-steading, a cow-house sixty feet long by seventeenbroad, with two wings, or small byres , as they are called, thir-ty-two by seventeen feet each, for feeding part of his cattle onthe turnips, raised on the adjacent parts of the farm. Alarge avenue leads from the steading to these feeding houses ;and eight fields lie so contiguous to them, that the turnipscan be carted at a very small expence, and in all seasons.This will soon repay what has been expended on building thehouses *. It is probable that an open shed, with a well in-closed fold-yard, might answer the same purpose, particularlyin situations but little exposed.

Feeding-houses are paved, as already described when sta-bles were treated of; only, as the dung produced in the for-

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