Hay in protected 

 area can be 

 tripped to feed 

 alley floor 

 as needed 



Fig. 64. For baled hay a framework about seven feet high would protect the 

 opening from the weight of hay above and would give sufficient 

 height for a worker to operate unhampered. The hay in the pro- 

 tected area could be dropped or tripped through the opening by one 

 means or another by the operator on the stable place. 



One man with a homemade belt type 

 cleaner ran the conveyor some dis- 

 tance from the barn and dumped over 

 a bank into a manure pit. In this 

 case there vi^as no provision for load- 

 ing the manure spreader directly ex- 

 cept when the pit was empty. 



Silage Preparation 



A simple method of getting out 

 several feeds with one trip to the 

 silo would be helpful. There are com- 

 plications due to need of keeping the 

 surface somewhat level but lower 

 around the edges. This is done to 

 prevent spoilage in warm weather 

 and to curtail freezing in sub-zero 

 weather. 



A light portable belt conveyor piv- 

 oted at the silo door would lighten 

 the physical effort and save some 

 time, especially in a large silo. The 

 operator might be able to throw down 

 one feeding and put another feeding 

 on top of this belt in such a way that 

 it would move out the door when the 

 switch was turned. This might not 

 work in freezing weather. 



Another idea suggested was a belt 

 type conveyor that would operate in 

 reverse, loosening the silage immedi- 

 ately underneath and dragging it to 



the door. If this conveyor was piv- 

 oted at the silo floor it could be moved 

 in a limited way to take considerable 

 silage. Once every two or three days 

 the operator would have to level off 

 the silage. Some arrangement might 

 be found so that one trip to the silo 

 would prepare for two or more feed- 

 ings. These trips to the silo could 

 be made in a slack period. 



Straining Milk in the Barn 



In most lai"ge dairy barns, the milk 

 house is at a considerable distance 

 from some of the cows. Even with 

 an ideal location of the milk house, 

 considerable travel and time are re- 

 quired to carry milk in pails from 

 the more distant areas of the stable. 

 It is very difficult for the operator, 

 under these circumstances, to take 

 full advantage of rapid milking tech- 

 niques. He can't get back to the 

 cows to machine strip at the proper 

 time. For instance, one operator 

 milking 46 cows alone used three 

 single units. He was able to carry 

 the milk when operating on the near 

 side of the barn but had to have a 

 man carry milk when he operated on 

 the far side. While this second per- 

 son was not busy all the time, the 



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