128 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Pub. Doc. 



Dr. Paige. The stable underneath the original structure 

 in the proposed plan was filled with hay. I provided a 

 driveway through the central section underneath the original 

 structure. The animal portion of the proposed plan has no 

 cellar underneath, the excrement l)eing deposited in the 

 manure sheds at the end, protected by an overhanging roof, 

 but without sides. 



Question. How would you care for the liquid manure ? 



Dr. Paige. By having cemented gutters, water tight. 

 These may be carried toward the end of the stable, so that 

 the liquid excrement would be carried out. In case of a 

 long animal section, the gutter should be carried from the 

 two ends toward the centre, and open into a cesspool outside 

 or into a tank. 



Mr. Q. L. Reed (of South Weymouth). Years ago they 

 did not clean their stables. 



Dr. Paige. They had at that time a tough lot of animals. 



Mr. Pierce (of Milton). I have often noticed that in an 

 old-fashioned stable, closed cold nights, the walls would be 

 covered with frost in the morning, and the air seemed much 

 worse than when the night was a moderately cold one, and 

 the stable was equally tightly closed. Was the air really 

 worse? It seemed to me that there would be more change 

 of air through the cracks, and that it ought to be better on an 

 excessively cold morning, but it appeared to be worse. 



Dr. Paige. I do not see how the temperature would 

 affect the circulation of the air very much under such condi- 

 tions as those. You must understand that a test of the 

 purity of the atmosphere by the sense of smell is a very un- 

 reliable one. With the walls frosty I should imagine the air 

 might be a little more vitiated in the stable than on a morn- 

 ing when the temperature was not quite so low. The ten- 

 dency for the frost to form is greatest when the air is still, 

 and there is little tendency for it to form when the air is 

 moving briskly outside. 



Mr. Howe. People close all ventilators to stop the cur- 

 rents of air that attract the lightning currents. Does it 

 prevent lightning from striking the building? 



Dr. Paige. I am not in a position to answer. I have 

 noticed that barns are fully as liable to be hit as houses, and 

 my explanation has always been this : a barn in July or 



