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"building (7) and are two feet square with openings at the floor of 

 the same dimensions. 



One special feature is the arrangement of the cement which covers; 

 the whole floor, except as noted. The entire floor slopes about one 

 • foot from one end of the building, so, while the gutters are the same 

 depth, this permits of a flow for drainage. The cows face the outside 

 of the building and the floor of their stalls is of two inch matched,, 

 planed Oregon pine, except for a strip of cement eight inches wide on 

 the side of the gutter (6) on which the hind feet of the animal rest. 

 All the rest of the floor back of the cows is of concrete with cement 

 finish, while the side aisles in front of the cattle are of wood, like the 

 floor of the stalls. The cows do not have the slippery, cold, cement 

 floor to lie (or fall) upon, which Mr. Paulhamus believes an improve- 

 ment over an entire cement floor. The stalls are shown in Plate IX. 

 There are so many kinds of stalls that it is impossible to say which is. 

 the best, but these are simple, inexpensive and satisfactory, as soon as; 

 the cows get used to them. 



At one end of the barn are several rooms. One (1) is intended, 

 for keeping supplies, as baled hay, roots and grain in sacks, etc. One 

 on the opposite side is a wash room with sink and hot and cold water 

 (B) , and a sheet iron stove (A) for wood with a coil of pipe inside to- 

 heat water (see p. 120). There is also a closet (d) for keeping the 

 milking clothes. The next room (3) is a rather novel arrangement of 

 the owner and assuredly deserves attention. 



This room has no connection with the inside of the barn, except 

 by a tube for conveying milk at C. Here may be found a pair of 

 steps which each milker ascends the moment he fills the pail. The 

 milk is poured into a sterile tin funnel which carries it onto a Star 

 cooler*, from which it falls, immediately cooled, into a can. The 

 can, when full, is taken to the milk house (Fig. 87), some 200 feet 

 away. 



The room (3) is reached from outside the barn and— with screened 

 door and window, and smooth, clean, painted walls and ceiling, and 



* The milk flows from the funnel (which is in the open central aisle of the 

 bam) through the wall, which separates it from room 3, and in thai, room falls on 



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the cooler. 



