Identifier: mechanicsmagazin01knig (find matches)
Title: Mechanics' magazine and register of inventions and improvements
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Knight, John
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, D. K. Minor and J. E. Challis
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
roofis washed or painted over with a mixture oftar, oil, and sand, and colored with a smallproportion of Spanish brown, by which com-position it is partly preserved from decay.You will recollect that the barn-yard is soformed that the centre of it is excavated inthe form of a dish, while all the other adja-cent parts of it are gradually inchned to thecentre, gravelled and rolled, so that ever\portion of the yard is preserved dry, hard,and clean. Small paved drains for convey-ing the stale from the cattle sheds and sta-hies, communicate with the centre. In caseof rain, the water from the adjoining build-ings also flows to the reservoir, and whenthe dish or excavation may overflow, a co-vered stone drain, with an iron grating at itsmouth, conveys the surplus liquid parts ofthe manure to a large tank, or cistern, hold-ing about 60 hogsheads, situated in the gar-den, from whence it is raised by a pump atthe pleasure of the gardener, who finds in 274 Description of an Improved Stercorary.
Text Appearing After Image:
this a valuable and rich resource for his ve-getables. By this contrivance no part ofthe manure of the yard is lost. The abovementioned shed, by placing a frame worklike the small braces of an umbrella at theupper part of it, is also devoted to the pur-poses of a roost for poultry ; this, too, at thesame time that it affords an ample and warmprotection for fowls, in some degree attractsthem to that part of the barn-yard, and there-by preserves the remainder of it relativelyclean, for it is to be recollected that they■epend a great portion of the day upon the manure heap, as well as lodging above it dur-ing the night. They are also regularly fedin the barn-yard, which attaches them to it,and prevents them from wandering far fromtheir home. The fowls also have access tothe cattle sheds, and to the sheep cellar be-neath the barn, where they make their nests ;by this arrangement, while the family is mostabundantly supplied with the produce of thepoultry yard, the fowls are protected fro

Note About Images