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710. Pure Water. This is as essential for cows as it is for 

 humanity, and nothing but deep well spring or pure running 

 water is fit for cows. 



Watering troughs must be cleaned regularly and one found 

 to contain rusty iron or decayed wood ought to be repaired or 

 replaced. Fresh water should be pumped daily if the cows are 

 watered at the stable. Two water tanks are sometimes provided 

 at dairy farms and a milk house built over one of them. The 

 water is pumped by a wind mill through the milk house tank 

 containing the cans of milk and then passes on to the stock water- 

 ing tank. This makes a very satisfactory arrangement for keep- 

 ing the milk cool when the wind blows but when there is no wind 

 the water must be pumped by hand. Such a milk house should 

 be well ventilated and kept clean. The water tank ought to be 

 regularly scrubbed so that the cows may always be supplied with 

 an abundance of pure, clean water. 



THE COW STABLE. 



711. A sanitary cow stable that may be clean enough to be 

 used as a dining room if desired is not necessarily an expensive 

 building. The same material may be used in building a clean as 

 a dirty cow stable and by giving the matter some study it will 

 be found that the arrangements and the conveniences needed for 

 keeping the cows healthy and the milk clean are not expensive 

 luxuries; they are common, every-day necessities that far exceed 

 in satisfaction the cost of building them. 



712. Two general types of cow stables are illustrated in 

 *Plates 12 and 13 and in the plans of the model barn erected at the 

 Wisconsin State Fair grounds. First, the one-story stable used 

 only for housing, feeding and milking the cows, with no feed or 

 hay stored in the building and second, the two-story stable with 

 cows, feed and other stock all under one roof. 



The one-story stable is better adapted to localities where the 

 climate is mild or not severely cold at any time during the year 



>U. S. Dept. Agr. B. A. I. Circ. 131. 



