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 INTERIOR FINISHING OF FARMERIES. 665 in orchards; for the latter purpose it well deserves adoption in this country. Fi"-. 1278 shows the manner in which it is used. ° 1274 1275 1276 while it division 1391. Cattle-sheds and Calf-houses require scarcely any fitting-up beyond what has been already mentioned. There are various descriptions of cribs, of wood, stone, and iron, for foddering- yards. It is objected by some, to fixed stone troughs, that they are not so easily cleaned as portable wooden ones. In some places oblong crits are fixed to the tops of posts, so as to turn on pivots in their centres ; in others they are placed on the top of a wall. Hay-racks are also often placed on the tops of the division walls of farmeries, as indicated in the section, fig. 1279; which, provides a double rack for twoyards, saves the expense of heightening the walls. The iron tethering-stake, fig. 1 280, which is twenty inches long, and costs 5s., is useful both for tethering calves and other young animals, when first taken out to the open air. 4 F