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Tlicn I \v;is asked, '"Uoav avouUI you like to have your ueck between 

 two rigid poles and have it kept there all the tiineV" I said, "If my 

 mother had placed me that way when I M'as a baby, and I had kept it up, 

 I would like it just as well as you Mould like to have a rope around your 

 neck. [Laughter.] 



Mr. Calvin: When I went into the dairy business I had a building 

 30x30, and twelve feet high, which was built for a hog house. I am 

 using it today for a cow barn. I Avant to say something about the con- 

 struction of a manger and feed way that is handy. I made a feed-way, 

 we will say four feet wide. I have two rows of cows, one on each side of 

 this feed-way, facing one another. Then I took a 2.\:-l; and I made a V- 

 shaped place for them to eat through. I have a plank which comes out 

 here probably IS inches. I tie with a chain. By measuring the height of 

 the coAV from the floor, to the top of her withers there, you can tell how 

 slanting to make your 2x4. They never root tlieir feed out of the manger; 

 they can eat very easily. They can back out and lie down with comfort. 

 I would not build a barn that way, if I was building a cow barn, but 1 

 had to use something until 1 was able to build, and this gives me good 

 satisfaction. 



Henry Schlosser: I got my first idea of the stanchions up in the State 

 of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin Experiment Station. I do not believe the 

 rigid stanchion is a proper one. I believe if I were building another barn 

 I would put in a swing stanchion. They are more convenient than any 

 other tie. We can arrange the cows close together, and we can arrange 

 our feed troughs in such a way tiiat the cow has no way of wasting any 

 of the food at all. 



Mr. Van Norman: You did not tell us, Mr. Goodrich, about the chain 

 stanchion. You have seen IliatV • 



Mr. CJoodricli: I have seen it Imt I liave never had any experience 

 with it. 



:Mr. \'aii NorniMn: 1 want to call attention to what is known as the 

 chain stanchion. It has a frame with six inches of chain at the top and 

 bottom. The cow can turn her head around with it, and rest her uosl 

 on her knee. I think it is better than the swinging or swivel stanchion. 



Henry Schlosser: I Ix'lieve there are more bank liarns in this part of 

 the State than in any other. They are very inconvenient. The lower part 

 or basement is cut up into four or five different stables. If I owned 

 one of those bains I would knock the inside out of them tomorrow morn- 

 ing, and rearrange thein. It would save time in taking care of the stork. 

 Most basements to l»ank liarns are too dark. We lind that in tliis \y.\vt 



