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Show KEEPING LIVE STOCK CLEAN Arrangement of Stable Cutter la Illustrated Illus-trated Showing How All Moisture Will Run Off. The Illustration shows a method of arranging tho stable gutter mo that all the moisture In the mall will run Into the stable gutter at once, thus leaving the bedding clean and dry at all times, and saving labor In grooming the animals. ani-mals. The gutter Is arranged to run along the lower end of tho stalls, just back of the animals, and is best made In a sub-floor of concrete, to Insure permanency, says the Homestead. The planking that forms the Btall floor is then laid across the gutter, and above S 31 Arrangement of Gutter. same one-half inch holes are bored through the lioards for tho moisture to pass through. These boles should not lie bored In regular rows as the wood Is more apt to break out easier if the grain Is thus broken, but by arranging so that no two holes nre in a direct line along the horizontal length of board the planking will last far longer. The stall floor should have a Blight Riant to this point, nnd the gutter must have slope enough to drain all moisture outside to the compost com-post heap. |