The Cow Barn 



dairy cattle in a hothouse temperature. A 

 herd of cows in a loosely built shed will 

 thrive better in the coldest weather than if 

 maintained in a tightly built, steam-heated 

 barn, with an elaborate scheme for ventila- 

 tion and the regulation of temperature. 



The shed style of barn, from its simplicity, 

 means small cost and a greater facility of 

 construction, things which should induce 

 farmers to break up the great herds stabled 

 in one building and adopt instead the custom 

 of small herds isolated in separate barns. 

 Further, its skeleton interior construction 

 and the absence of a ceiling mean a greatly 

 diminished dust surface. There will be no 

 dust sifting from the lofts above, which 

 means a decrease in the amount of dirt in the 

 cow barn, and this helps toward the general 

 cleanliness of the place itself, the animals 

 therein, and the milk there exposed. 



A cow barn should be designed for a small 

 herd, perhaps twenty, and it is preferable, 

 whenever possible, that they be stalled in a 

 single line. This arrangement of stalls has 



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