BARNS AND SHEDS. j:7 



barns. Each of the three barns are 200 feet long, 

 12 feet wide with a 4 foot aisle and contain 200 

 pens 4 feet long by 2 feet wide and 30 inches 

 high. The front or aisle end of each pen has an 

 18 inchi strip of f inch netting. In the center of 

 each barn is a straw shed 12 x 18 and 8 feet 

 higher than balance of barn where straw for the 

 ferret pens is stored making it convenient to get 

 when needed. 



The barn and silo are important parts of the 

 ferret colony for in the barn cows are kept and 

 in the silo cow feed thus supplying milk for the 

 ferrets. The cook house (the building with the 

 chimney) is IG x 30 feet, two stories. First floor 

 is used for cooking, grinding meat, and grinding 

 wheat into graham flour, etc. ; the upper floor is 

 a work room where shipping crates are made as 

 well as much other work done. 



At the right hand side, and near the front 

 of the cook house, is a shed under which a pit 

 about 5 feet deep, 4 long and 2 wide has been 

 dug and cemented. When an old worn out horse 

 is killed, or one in good flesh is accidentally 

 killed or dies, it is bought. The hide is taken off 

 and carcass cut up, when a layer of meat, then a 

 layer of ice is placed in the pit. Tliis is repeated, 

 layer after layer, until entire carcass is packed 

 in. The pit has a double cover and meat so 



