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many plows and harrows and all that and then we find a dif- 

 ficulty; each one wants a different kind. As the old Indian 

 said, it was a good thing- people didn't all think alike, if they 

 did they would all want his old squaw. We finally get them 

 together, are all ready to say, this community wants so much 

 of this and that and go to an agricultural agent and say, 

 "How much will you charge for all this?" 



And so I say to you, the creamery can promote the interests 

 of the patrons in a variety of ways if only men will cooperate 

 and be willing to trust one another. 



I leave the question here for you to follow it out. 



A Member — One of the worst things we have to deal with 

 is the question of ventilation in stables. 



Gov. Hoard. You have a practice in Vermont and New 

 Hampshire of piling the manure under the stable and leaving 

 it there the year round. I don't believe there is a man of you 

 who would live that way over a receptacle of that kind and 

 have it under your home. Have you any reason to believe that 

 the cow's lungs call for a less pure air than yours do? And 

 if you don't provide your cow with as pure air as you can, that 

 cow is bound to suffer and you with her. How shall you ven- 

 tilate a stable? Every stable should be as clean as your 

 kitchen. You have to heat your stable with the animal heat 

 of the bodies of your cows, you cannot go to work and heat it 

 artificially. Prof. King, of Wisconsin Experiment Station, 

 invented the best system of ventilation I have ever seen: Call 

 this room a stable, eight or nine feet high and ceiled over 

 head. About half way up the outer wall there is a register 

 there or opening and a pipe that runs up even to the ceiling 

 and an opening that comes in at the top. The cold air will 

 come in there and strike the warm air up there against the 

 ceiling and force itself through and against the warm air. 

 The warm air will not sink down and go out and the fresh air 

 comes in and through the layer of warm air. And then even 

 with the floor all along behind the cows calculated cubically 

 to be sufficient for the number of the cattle in the room, are 

 registers a few inches above the stable floor, communicating 

 with long galvanized iron pipes that go up through the roof 

 and as the fresh air comes in, this foul air is sucked out at the 

 bottom and goes out at the top. The foul air is constantly 

 going out of the stable and the fresh air is constantly coming 

 in and being warmed. The stable is at about fifty degrees. 

 Mr. Pierce. Did I hear you say where the out-let was? 



Gov. Hoard. At the bottom, usually behind the cattle, if 

 you face your cattle inward it will have to be on the wall. 



A Member — Would you advise the four sides of the stable to 

 be tight and with that ventilation? 



