OCR Text |
Show FOR FEEDING YOUNG CATTLE Modern Barn Is Built Throughout on Concrete Wall Averaging About Two Feet In Height. The ground floor plan of a bam, shown In the Illustration, was originally orig-inally Intended for feeding young cattle; cat-tle; It Is built throughout on a concrete con-crete wall averaging about two feet In height: the gates shut across the 20 -foot shed ho as to divide It when nceessury, writes II. O. 8. Todd of Plymouth county,' Iowa, In the Ilreed-era Ilreed-era Gazette. Hay Is taken in through the center driveway; the feed room Is floored with concrete and has grain and feed bins overhead; the grain feeds to the mill and Is elevated to a bin over the scales. There are two-Inch two-Inch pipes set on the Inside concrete rtr r ft l , ti ., v.? J Ground Floor Plan of Barn, wall about 12 Inches apart and hay If thrown from the top of the mow Into a rack built on the braces, where It slides down so that the cattle can reach through to It. The arrangement Is quite convenient conveni-ent for the purpose Intended. The chute at the east end Is used to castrate, vaccinate and mark calves and ring bulls. The stanchion opens with a lever about 2 feet wide enough for anything to pass through, and closes to 6 Inches. There la a door at the side of the stanchion for vaccinating and another side door at the rear for castrating. This is much the handiest contrivance I have ever seen. |