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cold storage for milk, cream, butter and other products, but often 

 the distance and the labor of going up and down hill make this 

 arrangement onerous in the extreme and in the end costly. The 

 milk house should be close to the barn and convenient to the 

 dwelling, even if artificial cooling has to be resorted to. Some- 

 times when water is brought some distance in pipes, it becomes 

 warm in summer before it reaches the milk house. If the water 

 comes by natural flow, it may be chilled again before it reaches 

 the house by letting it run through a coil in the bottom of a well. 



Some writers insist that a dairy barn should be a one-story 

 building. There seems to be no good reason, however, why it 

 should not be built with a hay loft above, provided the loft be 

 floored with matched stuff laid tight to prevent the passage of 

 dust. For the further avoidance of dust, a barn of this sort 

 should be so constructed that the hay will be brought down 

 outside of the stable proper, or at least through a closed-in 

 chute. At one end of the barn, provision should be made for a 

 driveway close to the building and for convenient use of a hay 

 fork. 



No modern dairjonan or stockman can be considered well 

 prepared for the business unless his equipment includes one or 

 more silos. These should preferably open outside the barn and 

 into a closed and covered passage connecting the silo with the 

 feed room. Ample space should be left about the silos for plac- 

 ing the cutter and power and for handling the wagons that bring 

 in the corn or other material. 



Similar provision should be made for the manure spreaders 

 which receive and carry off the manure. 



H^^gienic laws require that cows and horses be kept entirely 

 apart. On approved dairy farms, the horses are kept in a sepa- 

 rate building. Horse barns also should be so placed as to admit 

 of good lighting and ventilation. 



Theoretically, manure should be hauled from the barn and 

 spread every day. In practice this is very difficult, if not impos- 

 sible. If the horse and the cow barns are so placed that when it 

 is not possible to haul it daily, the manure from both classes of 

 animals can be mixed. This will save much loss of ammonia 

 from rapid fermentation or heating of the horse manure. 



It is a matter of convenience and economy of time to have the 

 building for the storage of farm implements, usually a long, deep 

 shed, close to the horse barn and faced so as to protect the imple- 

 ments from driving rains and snows and also protect the men 

 who may be busy with them in repairing, oiling, painting, etc. 



