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DAIRY BARN. 



Note. — In presenting the various plans of stock barns they are not offered as models; we built 

 according to our particular needs. They may offer suggestions to others in providing for their 

 specific needs. 



Figure 28 shows the ground plan of the dairy barn and silo erected 

 in 1900, The enclosed exercising shed, which was originally the beef 

 cattle barn, was moved to the present position during the summer of 

 190G. The main part of the dairy barn which is a T shaped structure 

 is 44x72 feet, and the annex 40x75 feet. At the present time the main 

 building is stabling all the pure-bred beef cattle and dairy calves; dairy 

 cows and heifers are kept in the annex. The entire barn has stalls 

 for sixty-five cows and heifers, and the box stalls accommodate thirty- 

 six calves and young cattle, or a total of about one hundred head. It 

 is the intention to remove the pure bred beef cattle from this build- 

 ing to the grade beef herd barn about one year hence, when the ex- 

 perimental work with the latter is completed, thus giving up all the 

 room of the dairy barn to dairy cattle. The main part of this barn 

 was completely remodeled during the spring of 1905. The east end of 

 Ihe main building, 16x44 feet,- projecting beyond the annex was used 

 for two bull stalls, a herdsman's room and a milk room; the balance of 

 this proportion of the structure was utilized by fifteen box stalls of 

 various sizes, none of them having direct access to yardage. In the 

 remodeling, the capacity of the main barn was more than doubled as it 

 now handles sixteen stalled cattle and thirty-six calves and voung 

 cattle, all of the latter having direct access to yardage. The calf 

 stanchions for thirtv-two head are fullv described in connection with 

 Fig. 36. The two rows of stall fittings are also described in connec- 

 tion with Fig. 35. These stalls are about 5 feet 9 inches from manger 

 to gutter, and from 3 feet 9 inches to 4 feet wide from center to center, 

 to accommodate 1,200 to 1,500 pound cows either suckling their calves 

 or being milked; the stalls are very satisfactory in every respect. On 

 the north end of this barn there is a root cellar 12x18 feet, made bv 

 walling in both sides of the gangway leading into the ground floor 

 above. It was somewhat difficult to keep the floor above this root 

 cellar from leaking. The joists were covered with inch lumber, then 

 a very liberal coat of tar and fine sand on which two inch planks were 

 laid, they also being coated with tar and sand. 



The annex to the main barn, which is 40x75 feet has been altered 

 but very little since its original construction. The row of nineteen 

 stalls on the west side decrease in size from one end to the other; on 

 the north end they are 5 feet 8 inches from manger to gutter and 3 

 feet 10 inches wide from center to center; the south stall is 4 feet 9 

 inches long and 3 feet wide. In this row the animals are fastened at 

 the neck to chains, reaching across the stall. The row of twenty-one 

 stalls on the east side has been altered some, the stalls having been 

 lengthened six inches from the north end to the jog in the gutter to 

 accommodate a group of large Holstien cows. The north stall is 5 

 feet 9 inches from manger to gutter and 3 feet 6 inches wide; the south 



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