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We know our Dairy Sarn Equipment is superior to anything else and we want 

 you, as a prospective customer, to know it. Therefore, we wish to give you the fullest 

 opportunity possible for a thorough investigation. If you have used our goods it would 

 be unnecessary to say a word except to show you the improvements we have made since 

 our last catalog was issued. We are sure that eventually you will use our equipments 

 as many others are now doing who first tried something else. A dairyman having four 

 barns, three of which are fitted with our equipments and the other one with an equip- 

 ment of another make, being asked why he did not use the Louden Equipment in the 

 other barn, replied, "This was the first barn we built and we profited on our other barns 

 by our mistakes on this one." It is wise to profit by the mistakes of others. 



Two of the prime essentials in a dairy 

 barn equipment are cleanliness and com- 

 fort for the cow. The cow should be 

 made as comfortable in her stall as she is in 

 the pasture. In short, "Pasture Comfort" 

 is the condition to be sought for. While 

 being securely held in place in the stall, she 

 should be absolutely free to lie down to one 

 side or the other, and to turn her head, or to 

 lick her sides, without cramping her neck in 

 the least, or straining herself in any way. A 

 cow rarely lies down squarely in the middle 

 of the stall, but nearly always at one side or 

 the other. Therefore, the stanchion should 

 always be anchored to the curb by a single 

 slack chain that will permit its lower end 

 to swing in a circle of 8 to 10 inches. 

 No other arrangement will fill the bill. 

 A cow in getting up and lying down always pitches forward. Consequently the 

 stanchion must be free to swing forward and back or she will be sure to jam her shoulders 

 against it. When held by a stanchion too rigidly anchored the cow will sometimes 

 make several attempts to rise before she succeeds and will jam her shoulders with each 

 attempt. This condition should not exist. The lower end of a swiveled or swinging 

 stanchion should always be sloping or well rounded, and never anywhere near 

 square or flat ; otherwise the cow will be liable to get her foot caught between the 

 manger curb and the lower square end of the stanchion and have it severely injured. 

 This cannot happen when the stanchion has sloping ends. 



Cleanliness is equally as important as the comfort of the cow. "Sanitary" is the 

 word generally used. Everything nowadays is "Sanitary," even "Sanitary" garbage 

 cans. The word "Sanitary" being so badly overworked, we prefer to use the word 

 "Cleanliness" which is said to be next to Godliness. The way to keep a dairy barn 

 "Sanitary" is to make it so it will be easy to clean and easy to keep clean. It will 

 not and it cannot clean itself. There should be no cracks or crevices anywhere to 

 catch and hold dirt. Neither should there be any recesses or pockets in which dirt 

 can collect, nor bars or pipes under which it can gather and be difficult to remove. 



Especially is it necessary that the manger and the manger curb over which the cow 

 has to eat should be constructed to afford no refuge whatever for dirt. Any attach- 

 ments placed on the curb are Hable to become "dirt catchers.'' In getting a new 

 equipment be sure to avoid everything which may become a "dirt catcher.' 



Plainness, smoothness and simplicity are the things to strive for and not the 

 addition of attachments which are frequently mere "talking points" having no 



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