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and aerated, cooled or separated at once, according to the 

 use to which it i.s to be put. 



Are these suggestions impracticable or impossible? Let 

 us review them briefly as to their advisability and their 

 probable cost : — 



1. A coat of whitewash in the stable is a dirt discloser; 

 in a small degree an antiseptic ; a brightener of the stable. 

 The United States Lighthouse Boards' fornuila, applied with 

 a spray pump, is said to be a quick and effective means to 

 this end. 



2. Sunlight in the stable is nature's great germicide, and 

 one of the most effective means of lessening the multiplica- 

 tion of germ life ; a dirt discloser ; health-giving and grate- 

 ful to the cows. Shutters will keep in the warmth on winter 

 nights. 



3. Bedding is worth all it costs and more too, in added 

 comfort, added milk, and in the prevention of manurial 

 wastes. 



4. Plaster or acid phosphate in the gutters is an air- 

 purifier, ammonia-absorber, manure-enricher, money-maker, 

 worth ordinarily more than they cost as fertilizers, and in 

 no wise injured for such service by use in the stable. 



5. Prompt removal of manure is generally recognized to- 

 day as the wisest procedure, viewed solely from the plant 

 food stand-point ; one which conduces also to the betterment 

 of the milk. 



6. Barn ventilation is apt to be the most costly, and often 

 the least satisftictory, of the dozen suggestions to put into 

 operation, since every barn seems to be more or less a law 

 unto itself as to ventilation. 



7. There are several self-cleaning tie-ups, if we may be- 

 lieve the statements of inventors. The one which I recently 

 heard advocated by Hon. B. W. McKcen, late secretary of 

 the Maine State Board of Agriculture, strikes me favoral)ly. 

 In brief, it consists of a platform so short and a feeding rack 

 for hay so placed that when standing the animal is practi- 

 cally forced to place her hind feet in the trench, and when 

 recumbent to lie with her head close to the front and her 

 body entirely out of the gutter and of its contents. The 



