Barns for Wisconsin Dairy Farms 



While Wisconsin's climate is ideal for the production of 

 vigorous and healthy live stock its rigor makes a well con- 

 structed, well lighted and well ventilated barn a necessity on 

 every well equipped stock farm. 



Successful animal husbandry requires not only healthy 

 stock but adequate and sanitary quarters in which to rear 

 them. Climatic conditions which prevail in Wisconsin require 

 that specific attention be given the matter of housing live 

 stock. Fresh air is essential to health. Sunlight is one of the 

 most powerful disease-destroying agencies known. To retain 

 as much of these properties as possible and at the same time 

 give adequate shelter from winter cold and summer heat is 

 the object sought in the construction of the barn of the live 

 stock farmer. The cost of such an improvement is consider- 

 able; consequently the prudent manager will carefully study 

 his needs so as to secure the best equipment for his money. 

 H. L. Russell, Director. 



Conditions, however, in the various sections of the state 

 and upon the various types of stock farms are not suffi- 

 ciently alike so that one plan will meet the demand of every- 

 one. The right barn for one man or for one farm may not in 

 any way meet the requirements of another. One man may, 

 in building his barn, consider, mainly, ways of reducing the 

 need of labor; another may plan his barn so as to aid him 

 in the display and sale of his stock. Then, too, one may care 

 more for architectural style and modern conveniences than 

 his neighbor and be willing to spend more in order to secure 

 these features. 



Barn building, however, so far as design of framing and 

 interior arrangement are concerned, is rapidly becoming 

 standardized. The general requirements of barns are very 

 similar, and the four designs described at the end of this bul- 

 letin and which may be secured by writing to the agricultural 

 engineering department are planned to meet as nearly as 

 possible the needs of Wisconsin farmers. 



