Fig. 13. Safety First. 



This pen is so arranged that the 

 attendant can care for the bull 

 without entering the stall. 



PURPOSE BARNS 



It will be noticed that in this 

 arrangement the bull cannot 

 turn around and that there is 

 no necessity of getting into 

 the pen either to turn him out 

 or to tie him. 



Separate Milk Room Preferable 

 A milk room should be lo- 

 cated near, but preferably not 

 inside, the dairy barn. The en- 

 trance to the milk room, it is 

 often urged, should be gained 

 from the barn only after going 

 entirely out of the stable. Milk, 

 of course, is easily contami- 

 nated by odors. This room 

 could be conveniently located 

 underneath the barn bridge or 

 near the entrance of the barn. 

 It is exceedingly important 

 that the gas engine for oper- 

 ating the separator be outside the milk room. Gas contami- 

 nates milk and the odor can be detected in the butter. 



Details of Construction 



Too many of us when thinking of building a barn start 

 at the wrong end. A fixed dimension is generally considered 



and then the problem is to get 

 all the stock on the farm into 

 this building. A better meth- 

 od of arriving at the size of a 

 barn is to consider the number 

 of cattle or horses to be put 

 into the building. Thirty-six 

 feet seems to be the stand- 

 ard generally adopted for the 

 width of a barn. 



Walls are often built of 

 stone or concrete. If of solid 

 concrete they should be 10 to 

 12 inches thick and well rein- 

 forced around doorways and 

 windows. If the walls are built 





Fig. 14. Openings Well Reinforced. 



It is important that concrete 



walls, especially about openings 

 and around corners be well rein- 

 forced. The material used to 

 reinforce the wall should be pro- 

 tected by two inches of concrete; 

 otherwise the rust will weaken it. 



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