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Journal of Agriculture, 



[8 F;EB., 1907. 



of fodder crops, and their preservation in a silo, hand-feeding, and winter 

 housing, have been successively and successfully adopted. The herd has 

 been nearly doubled in numters, and its quality improved four fold _; so 

 that now there are few more comfortable and prosperous dairy farms in 

 the State. While the change from poverty to prosperity cannot be wholly 

 credited to the initial improvement of the buildings, it was, nevertheless, the 

 " new shed " which gave things a start on the up-grade, and made all the 

 other advances possible. 



The moral is obvious, and if it has been clearly pointed, the unintended 

 digression from a description of a modern cow-shed, as herewith illustrated, 

 will have been justified. 



The principal features of the shed illustrated are: — 

 I St. Sim f licit y and Cheapness of Construction, whereby, in addition 

 to a 24-bail closed-in cow-shed, two calf pens or hospital cow boxes, a 

 commodious loose box and an implement shed are provided under one roof 



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" THE OLD ORDER 



on land 40 feet x 54 feet. It will be noticed that the construction through- 

 out (stalls, partitions, principals, rafters, studs, &c.), are arranged on what 

 may be termed a " 4 ft. 6 in. plan." This, while providing adequate 

 strength of structure and the proper width of stalls, results also' in the 

 saving of a considerable amount of timber. It mav be said, in fact, 



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that there is not an inch of useless timber in the building, nor yet is there 

 an inch short of what is required to insure stability. 



2nd. Smooth Internal Wall Surfaces, secured by the adoption of the 

 somewhat novel plan of placing the wall iron on the inside of the studs 

 instead of the outside. The accumulation of dirt, debris, chaff, litter, 

 cobwebs and the like in the corners and angles formed by the studs and 

 battens when on the inside, is thereby prevented, and the sweeping of the 

 floor near the wall foot, and cleaning of the wall surface near the floor 

 are greatly facilitated. The need for lime-washing is done away with, 

 as the smooth surface can be more quickly and effectively cleaned by 

 swabbing it at required intervals with a cheap and odourless disinfectaiut 

 solution, such as Condv's fluid or formalin solution. A further advantage 

 of the adoption of this plan is that, incidentally, it provides a perfect 



