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ing during a midwinter night when it is twenty 

 below zero outside and a howling gale driving in 

 its frigid blast at every crack and nail-hole. The 

 side walls must be double with a good dead air 

 space, or better yet, a chaff or saw-dust packing, 

 and over head there should be a hay-mow. In ad- 

 dition, the ceiling should be fairly low and the 

 stable filled with cows. The writer, living on the 

 high lands of the central New York plateau with 

 a rather iron-clad winter climate, realizes how 

 much care is necessary to secure a stable in which 

 water buckets may be installed with safety. 



Always in planning a bam there will be many 

 details to consider. Silage is heavy and must be 

 handled in large quantities. Therefore, it is of 

 prime importance to have the .silos so located that 

 the contents will be thrown out as near as possible 

 to the feeding mangers. 



Very often it will be wisest to have the bam 

 built in the T or L form, the main part containing 

 the lines of stanchions for the milking herd, while 

 the wing may be devoted to .box-stalls and calf 

 pens and periiaps with qiiarters for horses. How- 

 ever, city milk inspectors do not approve of the 

 very convenient feature of having the farm teams 

 close to the cows. 



When the slope of the land permits, the "over 

 shot" type of bam with the main drive-way on the 

 second story has many advantages. The bam of 

 the writer has the rather unusual feature of the 



