THE DIVERSIFIED FARM. 



tn diversified farming by irrigation lies tne salvation of agriculture. 



THE AGE wants to brighten the pages of its Diversified Farm department and with 

 this object in view it requests its readers everywhere to send in photographs and pic- 

 tures of fields, orchards and farm homes; prize-taking horses, cattle, sheep or hogs, 

 Also sketches or plans of convenient and commodious barns hen houses, corn cribs, 

 etc. Sketches of labor-saving devices, such as ditch cleaners and watering troughs. 

 A good illustration of a windmill irrigation plant is always interesting. Will you help 

 us improve the appearance of THE AGE? 



A MODEL BARN. 



Few farmers can afford to bave as com- 

 plete and fine a dairy barn as the one 



the barn was obtained. Our limited 

 space has obliged us to condense the ex- 

 cellent article given by W. L. Carlyle, 



in the accompanying illustration that of an d also to omit some of the illustrations. 



FIG. 1. Cross-section of cow-stall and stable floor, showing location of manger and 

 manure gutter. A, gate; B, front side panel; C, frame work supporting side 

 panel; D, swinging panel; E, manger: f. g, sides of manger; H, manure 

 gutter; k, k, gate bars; m, pin arranged with a spring for fastening gate; n, 

 eye for chain; p, arrangement for moving swinging panel. 



the College of Agriculture, University of 

 Wisconsin but from a description of it 

 an idea may be gained of the progress 

 made by dairymen, and valuable hints 

 derived which may be put to practical use 

 when building a new barn. A brief men- 

 tion was made last month of the Fifteenth 

 Annual Report of the Wisconsin College, 

 from which the following description of 



We present those which we think will give 

 the best idea of the interior arrangement 

 of the stable. The cuts were loaned us 

 through the kindness of Dean Henry and 

 Prof. W. L. Carlysle. 



The building, which is of frame, con- 

 sists of the barn proper, 86 feet long by 50 

 feet wide, with two wings, each 70 feet 

 long, projecting at right angles from each 



