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when the windows cannot be kept open in the winter, a system 

 of intakes and outtakes must be employed to provide fresh 

 air. In the stable shown in Fig. 147, the fresh air is taken in 

 through openings in the side walls between the windows and 

 carried through flues to the ceiling in front of the cattle. The 

 foul air passes out through flues that open near the floor and is 

 carried to the outside through the ventilators on the roof. 



Convenience of arrangement. In a dairy stable, convenience 

 is of prime importance, for the work can then be efficiently 



FIG. 148. A modern sanitary dairy barn. Milk from a barn like this is 

 very likely to be clean. 



and economically carried on. The feed should be accessible, 

 the stalls should be placed in rows so that feeding and other 

 operations are conveniently accomplished, and pure, fresh, 

 running water should be, if possible, piped to the mangers in 

 front of the cattle. 



Floors. Concrete floors are the best for dairy stables ; 

 they are easy to keep clean and are sanitary. The floors of 

 the stalls may be of some softer material, like wooden blocks 

 or cork brick, but, if plenty of bedding is used under the cattle, 

 stall floors of concrete are satisfactory. 



