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Show New Stock Car for Small Animals . : ...v , .,.-! f s m v " n - V. ' Pit . . VvvA L Interior of Car for Sheep, Lamba, Etc. A new live stock car for the shipment ship-ment of sheep, lambs nnd other small animals has been patented. The external ex-ternal design of the car follows closely close-ly the general lines of the live poultry poul-try cars. The interior of the car Is so laid out as to provide an atale running run-ning lengthwise through the center of j the car, in which water and feed troughs are conveniently arranged for all pens at each deck level. The inside in-side dimension of the car is 30 feet I 6 Inches in length. At one end is a j 6 by 9 caretaker's stateroom utider-: utider-: neath which is a submerged feed bin ! providing ample storage for feed en route. There is also two steel waler tanks located above the stateroom with a capacity of ten barrels of fresh water. The car is triple-decked and da-signed da-signed to accommodate the same nuin-ber nuin-ber of animals as may be loaded in the ordinary double-decked slock car. The animals can be evenly distributed on all three decks, where partitions properly placed prevent piling and reduce re-duce crippling. The outstanding feature of and the claimed superiority of this triple-decked triple-decked car is in its facility to feed en route without requiring n stop hi transit tran-sit under the federal statute which requires re-quires unloading every ."56 hours with a stop of 12 hours .for rest, feed and water in transit. |
