CHAPTER XXII. 



MODEL DAIRY STABLE ADAPTED TO THE SYSTEM OF ENSILAGE. 



FIG. No. i (see next page) shows the ground-plan 

 of a dairy establishment 76 feet wide, 127 feet long, 

 capable of accommodating 1 18 cows, the necessary young 

 cattle if dairy stock is to be raised, or, if cows are bought, 

 ample room for a flock of 100 sheep, together with their 

 year's supply of forage. There is an engine-room at the 

 right-hand corner, 12 X 18 feet ; next, a 12 X 14 feet milk 

 and butter room, small shaft enters to attach churn to. 

 Next, three box-stalls, 8x12 feet, opening out of a 

 passage-way six feet wide, which leads from the principal 

 feeding-floor to the milk and engine room. The milk 

 and butter room is sheathed up on the outside with well- 

 seasoned, planed, and matched lumber, and plastered on 

 the inside, with double doors to prevent any odors from 

 entering. The floor of the engine and butter rooms, and 

 of the entire establishment, is cement. 



A, A, A, represent an elevated track, upon which a 

 box holding Ensilage enough to feed 25 cows is sus- 

 pended. This track is overhead in the centre of the 

 feed-floors. 



The first floor into which the Silos open is 12 feet 

 wide ; next to this is a manger 2 feet wide ; next is the 

 lintel floor, four feet ten inches wide ; next, gutter, one 



