158 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Strength is greatly increased over that of having them nailed to- 

 gether with spikes. In the construction by the plank frame 

 method, it is wiser, in order to get the barn strong, to use bolts. 

 I want you to notice in all these plans the window space. 

 These illustrations are of modern, sanitary barns. (Half-tone 

 Nos. 2 and 3). Some of these are Illinois bams. They should 

 be situated on well-drained soil. 



Note: 



Halftone No. 2 is barn of F. J. Quinn, Peoria, 111. 



Halftone No. 3 is barn of S. P. Stevens, Bartlett, 111. 



Mr. Mason: *'How high a ceiling in the basement?" 



A : ''Eight or nine feet. Not too high, it is apt to be too 

 cold, and if too low you would have trouble in ventilating it and 

 doing the work." 



A barn should be situated 200 feet from the house and at a 

 place where the odors from the barn will not go towards the 

 house. 



The one point that I want to emphasize and leave with you 

 this morning is this fact, that there are other problems relating 

 to dairy farming which we have not paid attention to in the past 

 and that there is money value in these, and now that we have a 

 fairly good understanding of these other things, it would pay 

 us to look after this end of the dairy game. 



Poets have sung of war and love, 



Of the ocean's depth and of the skies above, 



Of valiant knights in the days of old. 



Of weird wild tales of pirates bold; 



They have sung of our sires at Bunker Hill 



Of the English red-coats who received their fill, 



Of the noble red men on lake and plain, 



But I have searched their verse and searched in vain 



So I have, I vow, for a single line 



That sings the praises of the dairy cow. 



