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if the best sanitary conditions can be maintained in this way. In the 

 new horse barn two stalls were planked over the concrete, experimen- 

 tally, and a blindfolded person could detect them while passing down 

 the alley, from the stench of the urine soaked wood. Those whom we 

 know to have used concrete in horse stalls for three or four years in 

 succession do not object to them. 



Because the bed of the pig on a cement floor becomes damp and befouled 

 so easily it is desirable to use overlays which can be removed regularly 

 and thorouoghly cleaned during the winter season. Whatever its faults 

 may or may not be the concrete floor permits of the maintenance of bet- 

 ter sanitary conditions than any other that has j^et been used. The 

 question of sanitation in the old type of barn is a very important one; 

 there are plenty of cow stables- in use even yet where the urine and 

 barnyard seepage will squirt up from between the planks as one walks 

 over them. There are still a good many horse barns with the same old 

 auger holes in the plank floor back of the stall to allow the urine to 

 drain away beneath the barn. There are barns still with no floor at 

 all except the earth with which the solid excrements and urine have been 

 incorporating for years. 



WATER SUPPLY FOR STOCK BARNS. ' 



With the exception of the sheep and bull barns no attempt has been 

 made to install equipment in the cattle barn to supply the animals with 

 water in the stalls. There are two principal reasons why this has not 

 been done. In the first place the adjustment of mangers and feed boxes, 

 so as to secure individual feed records of such a large number of animals, 

 has rendered the work of installing water systems somewhat diflicult. 

 But in the second place, a more important reason exists, viz., that we 

 have been unable thus far to devise or secure an equipment that would 

 seem to be satisfactory in every respect. All devices seem to work well 

 when first installed, but many of them go into disuse in a very short 

 time. Wlien we can install a water system that gives promise of the 

 maintenance of good sanitary conditions and durability as regards etfi 

 ciency, then we propose installing the same. At the present time our 

 cattle drink from concrete troughs placed in the yards. During the 

 winter season tank heaters are used in these troughs. 



EQUIPMENT OF SWINE DIVISION INCLUDING BUILDING, 



COTS, YARDS, FENCES, ETC. 



The Building. — Fig. 39 represents the ground plan of the College 

 piggery as it is now fitted for use. The building itself was among the 

 first erected at the institution for housing live stock and was constructed 

 almost solely by student labor. It is a very old building but, 

 nevertheless, today it contains some excellent material in almost perfect 

 state of preservation. The excellent pine siding and the oak posts, 



