BARNS FOR WISCONSIN DAIRY FARMS 



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shown in Figure 15. Itprovides for two outside doors, one 

 for the bull to come in through,Jthe other to go out. Such 

 an arrangement makes it 

 unnecessary to enter the 

 stall, the exit door can be 

 opened from the outside, 

 the bull untied from the 

 front and allowed to go out 

 and exercise. It will be 

 noticed that in this arrange- 

 ment 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 

 located near, but preferably 

 not inside the dairy barn. 

 The entrance 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 contaminated by 

 odors. This room could be conveniently located underneath 

 the barn bridge or near the entrance of the barn. It is ex- 

 ceedingly important that the gas engine for operating the 

 separator be outside the milk room. Gas contaminates 

 milk and the odor can be detected in the butter. 



FIG. 15. SAFETY FIRST 



This pen is so arranged that the at- 

 tendant can care for the bull without en- 

 tering the stall. 



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 method 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 standard gen- 

 erally adopted for the width of a barn. 



