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water, and is run to a paddock jvhich is far enough i^roni the barn to l)e used 

 as a pig pasture. The water runs into a shallow drinking trough and in this 

 manner the pigs are regularly watered without extra eilfort. The overflow runs 

 into a wallowing vat, which is occasionally sprinkled with a disinfectant, thus 

 keeping the animals free from parasites and insects, such as lice and flies. 



A second drain is connected to the wash room, milk room, and gutters back 

 of the cows, and carried to a low place suitable for sewerage, where it can be 

 dried and purified by the rays of the sun, which is nature's germ destroyer. 

 This drain is used for wash water from the stable floors and gutters when 

 scrubbed out. The urine in these gutters is absorbed and used for fertilizing, and 

 is not allowed to escape into the sewer. If preferred it may be run into a urine 

 cistern and later used for fertilizing purposes. 



The water pipes from the milk house to the cow barn, as well as the sewers, 

 are placed deep enough into the ground to avoid freezing, so that water can 

 flow from the milk house to the cattle mangers at all seasons of the year. 



The milk house measures about 20 ft. by 25 ft., with a partition in the 

 center; one half of this building is used as an office, and has a hard wood floor; 

 the other half for a milk room with a cement floor and a cement water tank so 

 situated as to have the well at one end of the tank. The milk room is equipped 

 with a two horse power gasoline engine, a thirty candle power electric light 

 dynamo, a switch-board and a cream separator. 



The gasoline engine is connected to a shaft so that it can be used for 

 pumping water, lighting the barn, and separating the cream at the same time, 

 so that these three operations are performed at the approximate cost of one. 



The cement tank is so arranged as to support an air tank for forcing water 

 to all parts of the buildings, and also to cool the milk cans immediately after 

 milking. In this manner the cold water cools the milk, and the warm milk warms 

 the cold water, and after the milk is cooled the water can be let into the cow 

 mangers for the cows to drink. In this manner each milking animal is enabled 

 to warm her own drinking water, which otherwise would necessitate artificial 

 heat, at considerable expense and trouble, twice daily during the winter months. 



The milk house contains a small hot water heater connected with the air tank 

 or water system, and also with a radiator in the office for heating same. From 

 this heater hot water can be obtained at all hours of the day or night for washing 

 cans, preparing hot mashes for the stock, etc. 



Now as to the plans of the barn itself. More thought and consideration 

 should be given the plans of a barn than is usually given by the owner. Perhaps 

 the first thing to consider is the expense incurred in building a barn. The owner 

 should first make up his mind as to the amount of money he wishes to invest 

 in a dairy barn, so that the plans may be drawn accordingly. The plans should 

 provide for the, convenient accommodation of a certain number of cows, calves, 

 and the herd bull, arranged in two rows, extending the entire length of the 

 barn, the larger part of each row being assigned to cows and heifers in stanchions, 

 with the balance of the space designed for bull pens and calf stalls. 



In this barn the cattle face out ; the calf pens and bull stalls come right in 

 line with the single stalls so as to leave a driveway through the entire length 

 of the barn. In this manner the litter can be removed from the gutters or 

 box stalls by litter carrier or team. The feed for cattle can be carried on feed 

 trucks and distributed from the side aisles which run in front of the cattle on 

 either side of the barn. 



