FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 155 



to be able to do the work in the easiest way and in the shortest 

 time, that, too, has been neglected in the planning of barns in 

 the past. We little realize that when, in the first instance, if we 

 had a little carrier and a man to take out the manure from the 

 barn in fifteen minutes less time per day than by the wheelbar- 

 rov/ method, or any other fnethod, that that saving of fifteen 

 minutes a day amounts to 91 hours in a year and at 20 cents an 

 hour which we estimate farm labor to be worth, it amou.nts to 

 $11.20 a year. A man told me that the time saved in two or 

 three years pays for the litter carrier. Those who do not pro- 

 vide that kind of an accommodation in the barn are paying for 

 it just the same. 



I recently visited the farm of a man who put in individual 

 water buckets in his barn. He said it increased the milk yield 

 in his herd. I have heard that statement made several times 

 throughout the country. Here is his statement : his name is John 

 Hetts, his address is Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin ; he has 256 pure- 

 bred Holstein cows; he had a modern barn in every other way. 

 but he did not have the individual water buckets. He put them 

 in and he claims that the increase that he received in the milk 

 since they have been installed would pay for those water buckets 

 in three months. That looks like a prettv broad statement, but 

 you can verify that if you please. Mr. Hetts is a business man 

 and has been in the milk business for twenty years. That is the 

 result of his judgnient and he said I might use his name either 

 in print or before audiences such as this. 



Those who go into the scientific analysis of the drinking 

 proposition make this statement : If the water is too cold so that 

 the cow will not drink as much as she needs to a part of her 

 energy is consumed in warming that water. That energy might 

 be used for other purposes if the water was reasonably warm. 

 Moreover, where the old method of watering is followed, cows 

 don't always get water when they want it. You know how you 

 feel when you are thirsty and cannot get a drink. Where they 

 have individual water buckets the cows drink when they want to, 

 and have water at the right temperature. Tliey have as much 

 water as they want, and clean water. These are new ideas with 

 reference to barn equipment that are worth your while to con- 

 sider. 



