HABITATIONS 319 



The labour of feeding must be reduced to a minimum, 

 and the arrangement of buildings is such that from the 

 time the food enters the farm until it leaves it as manure, 

 the sequence of events shall be permitted to take place in 

 their proper order, so as to save labour as far as possible. 



For example, the rooms where the food is prepared are 

 placed near to the barn and granary, and communication 

 between these and the cattle-houses is complete and un- 

 interrupted, in fact upon the correct placing of these the 

 whole convenience of the farm depends. 



With a purely dairy farm the primary consideration is 

 the storage of milk, and the proper carrying out of this is a 

 matter of the first consideration, though even here facilities 

 for storing, preparing and distributing the food to the cows 

 can by no means be lost sight of. 



The above points which are of paramount importance to 

 the farmer, necessitate his buildings arranging themselves 

 either on three or four sides of a square, a formation to 

 which we have offered the greatest objection in the case of 

 habitation for horses, but which appears difficult to over- 

 come in the case of cattle owing to the question of labour. 

 Nor is there, perhaps, the same strong objection to this 

 formation in the country, where the place can be made 

 freely open to the purifying influence of air and sunlight. 



A Dairy Farm must contain the buildings for a dairy 

 proper, which is quite distinct and cut off from any other 

 buildings on the farm. The site of this should be as far 

 as convenient from the cow byres, and as far as possible 

 from the piggeries and sewage receptacle. 



The Dairy consists of certain rooms where the milk is set 

 for cream and butter made. This structure has nothing to 

 do with the veterinary hygienist, its sanitary aspect belongs 

 to the medical authorities, but it is permissible to note as 

 a matter of general interest, that the points aimed at in 

 the dairy are : (1) An equable temperature which is secured 

 by the windows facing north, and both they, the walls, and 

 ceiling being double. (2) By the place being absolutely free 

 from dampness, which is ensured by the double wall and a 



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