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for the cows but where not enough attention has 

 been paid to ventilation, lighting and comfortable 

 stalls. More commonly, especially in the preten- 

 tious barn, the welfare of the cattle has been looked 

 after, but that of the herdsman forgotten. One 

 finds hay dragged long distances by the forkful 

 through narrow alleys, silage carried in baskets 

 from remote corners and manure laboriously re- 

 moved by wheelbarrows. 



A fairly standard type of dairy bam construc- 

 tion has now been evolved. It is a building from 

 thirty-two to thirty-six feet wide and as long as 

 necessary to house the desired number of cattle. 

 The cows stand in stanchions in two parallel 

 rows facing outward toward the air and light and 

 feeding alleys and there will be a driveway through 

 the center behind them through which a wagon may 

 be driven or a carrier rolled for the removal of the 

 manure. These general dimensions are correct. 

 A bam narrower than this will be crowded and if 

 wider it will be poor economy of space. 



The arrangement of floor plan just indicated 

 will be best in most cases. However, under the 

 rather unusual circumstances when it is expected 

 that the cows will rely mainly on green soiling 

 crops fed in the stables, it may be wiser to reverse 

 the position of the cows and have them stand 

 facing each other so that loads of forage may be 

 driven through the central feeding alley and 

 pitched directly into the mangers. It must be 



