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men has my sympathy. For years I was one myself. I am 

 not going to decry a separate stable for the cattle, or the 

 wing attachment to the hay barn, — the modern idea. These 

 are all right if properly constructed, and the owner can 

 afford them. But the man with the stable in the first floor 

 of the hay barn, with a cellar underneath, thus combining 

 all under one roof, saving expense and labor, need not "give 

 up the ghost " so far as the production of clean milk is con- 

 cerned. If he will keep effluvia reduced to lowest terms 

 and out of the stable, and dirt out of milk by adopting the 

 best known methods of milking, and take his milk at once 

 from the stable upon drawing, remembering that Avhether his 

 milk is clean or not depends upon him, and not upon his 

 wealth or costly buildings or upon extravagances or luxuries 

 of any kind, he will meet with success. It is a great mis- 

 take to copy from wealthy fancy farmers any costly or un- 

 necessary device. Many a man has kept himself poor by so 

 doing. As an illustration of Avhat can be done by confining 

 one's self to essentials, I cite the following instance. 



There is in this State a barn that acconnnodates some 30 

 head of cattle, costing not over $1,250 above the foundation, 

 constructed with the utmost care as to economy, and utiliz- 

 ing to the very best advantage every foot of space, one roof 

 covering ha3% carriage room and stable, horses and cows kept 

 together in a stable always warm, never too cold in winter 

 or too hot in summer, never damp, always sweet, even though 

 hogs run upon the manure in the barn cellar. The walls 

 of this stable are double, and provided with the King system 

 of ventilation, thus insuring good air and at the same time 

 warmth. The room is exposed on three sides, and is abun- 

 dantly supplied with windows, double for winter, and with 

 fly screens in summer. Even the milk room is under the 

 same roof, but it is so far se[)arat('d from the stable that no 

 odors can reach it. If all the farmers of the Connnon wealth 

 should use as much common-sense, vigilance and care as this 

 man, they could make the best of milk, and at the same 

 time, with a slight increase in price, a fair living. The prod- 

 uct of this farm is cream, the skimmed milk being fed out 

 upon the jn-emises, and the land improved in fertility from 



