DiriSIUN OF ASIMM. Ili.-^IJAS DRY S79 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



uocGSsary, upright slatted shafts may be provided to the trap doors for fillinfj. The 

 fresli air intake-; are eontrolled hy double dampers, whir'h can be closed after the roots 

 are eoolcd, tlnis prohibitiim' the cntraiicc of frost. 



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riic cattle barn will aeeommodate thirty-four milch cows standing in all-stcd 

 stalls and tied by means of swiiig'iug' steel stanchions, and also the eifj;ht box stalls will 

 accommodate twenty-two bulls, heifers, itnd calves. 



A separate milk room, well ecpiipped with lockers and sink, etc., is cojitained in 

 the northwest eoriier of barn. This milk room being- farthest away from the manure 

 pit and feed room, facilitates cleanliness of the milk. A self-elosing door from the 

 milk room to the barn ensures the exclusion of dust. 



In the southeast eorner of barn there is a small open shed sufficiently large to 

 accommodate a large manure wagon. This provided with a concave cement floor 

 facilitates the keeping of the iuanure away from the barn with the least possible labour. 

 The exclusion of the manure from the vicinity of a dairy bai'n is absolutely essential 

 in order to make the best flavoured and purest milk, and also to prohibit the breeding 

 of flies in the vicinity of the barn. 



A connnodious feed room is provided in the northeast corner of stable, into whi<'h 

 enter the silo and the root cellars. Into this feed room dump four meal chutes from 

 the meal room above, A stairway to meal room, properly fitted with closets and sink 

 miderneath, makes this an ideal place for the mixing of feeds. 



The meal room above the feed room is of the same size as feed room, and is well 

 fitted w^ith hopper-shaped bins and with chutes extending to feed room below. 



The rest of this end of the storage barn is taken up with a granary. 



The root cellar under driveway is sufficiently large to accommodate approximately 

 4,000 bushels of roots. This root cellar has a ceiling of reinforced concrete, the same 

 being flour of the driveway to barn. Contained in this eeiling are two watertight traf>s 

 for the filling of the root cellar. Adjoining this root cellar in the barn is a smaller 

 emergency root cellar sufficiently large to accommodate approximately 1,G00 bushels 

 of roots. 



The silo opening into feed room has a capacity of approximately 140 tons. 



A litter carrier is installed throughout the barn, which takes the manure to tlic 

 small manure shed and runs it directly over the cart there placed for the reception <>f 

 all litter. All manure is haulpd directly to the fields. 



The distribution of feed is done by means of two low, three-wheeled trucks. ^Thc 

 meal truck is fitted with bins to accommodate three diiferent meal mixtures or straight 

 meals. The ensilage truck is of the large hopper-sh.aped type, accommodating 20 

 bushels. It might be well to again mention that experience with these trucks has shown 

 distinct superiority over the s'ispended feed carriers. 



10. Water. 



Individual basins are provided for the tie stalls and all calf boxes. For compara- 

 tive purposes, two systems representing two tj'^yes were installed. For one row of cow 

 stalls and the calf boxes a good underfeed system of bowls was installed with two control 

 tanks to regulate the same. On one of the rows of ties an overhead feed system was 

 installed. This latter, however, has not given very good s.'Uisfaetion as yet, but it i.t 

 Loped that remodellings will materially improve the same, for it has many distinct 

 advantages over the underfeed system in principle, althou.gh as yet not in practice. 

 These water systems to date have been fairly satisfactory and are much more con- 

 venient and cleanly than watering "in the mangers or with buckets. The bull boxes 

 were not supplied with water basins owing to the possibility of breakage, thus causing 

 the flcoding of tlie retails. Hence the bulls are watered with pails. 



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