DAIRY MEETING. 83 



care will put our dairy industry on a higher level, do away with 

 the boarder cows and change the dairyman and breeder into a 

 prosperous and contented man. 



ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF A DAIRY 



FARM. 

 By Prof. J. W. Sanborn, Gilmanton, N. H. 



The subject which has been given me is a very broad one 

 with many phases. I shall not attempt to discuss all the 

 features of the question. 



I have had the pleasure and burden of organizing new build- 

 ings, as overflow buildings, within the last two years, and I 

 adopted a somewhat modern line of thought, placing the barn 

 by itself as an independent factor in the system of buildings, 

 with an annex for the cows, — a wing with a double row of cows 

 facing a wide central walk, and a silo at the other extremity, 

 at the end of the walk. Thus there is a bam at one end of the 

 cow stable, and a silo opening in at the other end, while at one 

 corner is placed a cement-tight pit, cemented at the bottom and 

 the walls laid in cement, to receive both solid and liquid dress- 

 ing, and to conserve the same in toto. These buildings were 

 built on the side of an incline so that the hay could go in at 

 the top of the barn, which is nearly forty feet deep. Long 

 experience and thought have led me to believe in gravity, so 

 we built the barn with the force of gravity in view. It is a 

 plank barn with a self-supporting roof. In that same barn we 

 placed the grain, and from a common center the hay is drawn 

 down by trucks straight through the central walk, to feed ninety 

 odd cows, and from the other end of the walk the truck brings 

 up silage easily for the same number of cows, fifteen pounds to 

 the cow. So it goes loaded both ways. We find, as a matter 

 of fact, that the excess of labor supposed to be required where 

 the barn is at one end and the silo at the other, is very small. 

 The labor is performed with nearly as much ease as in the old 

 style barn with three stories, — a manure cellar, a central section 

 for the cattle and an upper story for hay. I will say that the 



