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It is an advantage to the cow stable in some ways to have a story above it; 

 one reason is that it makes the ceiling warmer and there is less danger of 

 frost on it in cold weather. Ten feet is a good height for the cow stable; 

 eight feet will answer, but I would not build with less than ten-foot ceilings. 

 I have one stable with twelve-foot ceilings, but that is higher than is neces- 

 sary. The old idea that we should build a cow stable with a certain number 

 of cubic feet per cow for air space ought to be exploded, as it is not up to date. 

 Arrange the floor space to make it convenient for the cows and yourself, and 

 provide fresh air by a system of ventilation. I have the King system of 

 ventilation in four cow stables and it works very satisfactorily. This has 

 been described so frequently in the dairy papers that it seems almost un- 

 necessary to describe it here. It consists of air flues in the outer walls of 

 the building, opening near the floor, or at the sills on the outside, and ex- 

 tending upward as high as the stable ceiling, and there opening into the 

 stable. These flues should have a sliding or some other controllable kind 

 of a door by which the amount of air can be controlled, as in case of a strong 

 wind there may be at times too much cold air received into the stable. The 

 impure air is taken out by flues opening near the floor of the stables and ex- 

 tending to the highest point of the barn or stable. I find this principle to 

 work very nicely, having used it for at least fifteen years as near as I can 

 remember. I once had visitors test the ventilation of an empty stable by 

 closing all the doors and windows, when a test showed a circulation of air 

 was going on all the time, coming in the fresh air flues and going out the 

 foul air flues. 



" Whatever is worth doing at all is worth 

 doing well." Earl of Chesterfield. 



