MODEL DAIRY BARN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 19 December 1905, Page 4

MODEL DAIRY BARN.

Ctaa Be Adapted to Sait Aar »*«• '' ' tlon of the Country. I I send a cross section and ground | plan of the most convenient dairy bam it has ever been my fortune to see. The [' plan shows a barn for 16 cows, but it ; can be made longer or shorter to ac- ? );• Commodate a larger or smaller number ; - of cows. It is best to build it two dtories high, to store a large amount of feed, but it can be made one-story where i ope does not need so much loft room. KgjjlPia ni pp.w atails ere marked Ain the

V/ {ground plan, and the calf stalls B. K} ~.The places of the milking stools are ; snarked with a small circle. The milkBp er occupiea the same stall With the I!, calf. there being a door shutter in the mL center of each calf stall, separating HT the two. How these shutters swing is Hr' shown at C, there being a small door R without a*shutter through which the BPSmilking is done, in front of each milks' iCff.stool, *t D. The feed troughs are | ' xasrked'El A W ' The feeding Is done from the driveL way, through Windows, with drop ■ shutters, shown at F, Fig. 1. The ■ eowß are driven in the long, narrow

y: PLAN OP BARN, ' larked X, iicui either end of ''Ay; ■< a; rough doom Tn. The V _ * . ■- iw stalls (At open back iu thin show : •■,. I nu> «oa go fro;!' the driveway' to the long passage (X), through ;1; • d*or& " -0, and the cross passap ~ lhe -'laiun'c ‘theda are full length of the barn, r.° indicated by the dotted lines, Fig. 2. The ■roofs to these sheds are made in sections, and are hinged to the wall of the bam so they can be raised up, as indicated by the broken circular lines, Tig. 1. An opening of about 18 inches is left just under the roof of the manure shed, the full length of the born, marked J, J, Fig. 1, to throw the manure through

when cleaning stalls. The stairs are ' hinged to the loft and can be raised 'tip out of the way with a pulley and rope attached, when it is necessary to drive through. If you contemplate the erection of a cow barn it will pay you to study this plan, for I assure you it is a good one for Georgia, and can be Adopted to suit any section.—E. W. J, Stewart, in Ohio Farmer.