110 THE dairyman's MAl^UAL. 



that a seventy-foot barn will bold forty head, and pro- 

 vide abundant room for the crop of 100 acres, at a 

 cost of about ten dollars per running foot. Light timber 

 only is needed, and rough posts set in the ground will 

 make the basis of the frame. The plan is arranged for 

 a building to be seventy feet long, and fifty feet wide, 

 with the central space twenty-six feet, and the wings 

 each twelve feet wide ; wide doors are made at each end, 

 and also through the center; the stanchions or stalls 

 in the center are movable, and may be easily taken down 

 when it is necessary to use the central cross passage. 



The Disposal of Majeure is another important mat- 

 ter, and the construction of manure cellars should receive 

 attention. Manure may be saved and made most easily 

 in a cellar under the stable. By the use of trap-doors in 

 the gutter on the floor, the manure and soiled litter can 

 be drawn down and dropped into the cellar in five min- 

 utes. The stable is then clean and ready for a fresh 

 littering of sawdust and leaves or short straw. To draw 

 the manure along the gutter, I have used a large hoe 

 made as wide as the gutter. This cleans the floor when 

 necessary, as well as the gutter. A stiff broom is then 

 used to sweep the gutter clean. The manure falls in a 

 heap under each trap-door in the gutter, and is immedi- 

 ately spread and covered over with a coat of dry swamp 

 muck kept in readiness in the cellar. A heap of the 

 muck is then thrown under each trap-door to catch the 

 drip of liquid which comes from the gutter. In this way 

 there is no foul odor in the stable. If any should be 

 noticed, the floor is dusted all over with plaster kept in 

 a barrel in the stable for that purpose, and a half bushel 

 of it is taken into the cellar and spread over the manure. 

 In this way the stable is kept free from all disagreeable 

 odor, and the most fastidious person could walk through 

 it without the least disgust and witness the milking 

 which follows this operation. 



