The Cow Barn 



cient light and air, an opportunity for needed 

 exercise, and tlie liberty to keep clean, and 

 these things must be provided during the 

 stay indoors if the farmer would do justice 

 to his herd and at the same time swell his 

 pocketbook to its proper thickness. 



The specifications for a cow barn must 

 come from the experts in that branch of 

 architecture, but in the interests of clean 

 milk, which are identical with the interests 

 of dairying in general, some ideas about the 

 construction may be advanced. In the first 

 place the building should be designed, con- 

 structed, and used solely and entirely as a 

 stable for dairy cattle; it should not be used 

 as a storage place for feed, vehicles, or uten- 

 sils, nor as a stable for other animals. This 

 singleness of purpose means that the needs 

 of the cow will be the principal considera- 

 tion, and these needs, important though they 

 be, call for no grand or complicated struc- 

 ture. The cow barn should be practically a 

 shed, with a continuous row of windows in 

 the side walls and a Monitor skylight in the 



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