plains itself. The main posts are 10 feet, the 
jmrlin posts 28 feet. Pig. 211 shows the plan 
of the main floor which is all ma<le of two- 
inch pine matched. The end spaces are 18 
feet and each has a floor placed 7V£ feet above 
the main floor, and under these at each end, as 
shown, are placed the granaries. All the 
other spaces between tho bents are 10 feet, 
with doors at each end, us shown. 
At convenient places are trap-doors for 
throwing fodder or straw to the feeding rooms 
below. There are also meal-bins placed as 
wanted on this floor, with chutes leading to 
the gram bins below, which save much carry- 
Root Cellar g/.xio 
s. - 2 8 _M. 20 
Entered, according to Act of Congress. In the year 1887, by the Rcrai, New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
ikeixiXL 
HOW PRIZE BUTTER IS MADE. 
THE PRIZE-WINNERS SPEAK. 
Shortlt after the names of the prize-win¬ 
ners in the butter contest at the late Dairy 
Show were announced, the Rural forwarded 
the following questions to each winner. 1. 
What breed of cows produced the milk from 
which your butter was made? 2. What feed 
did they receive? 3. How was the cream raised 
and churned? 4. How was the butter salted, 
worked, and colored ? The following answers 
have been received, for which our thanks are 
due. It will be noticed that all breeds of cattle 
were represented in the contests. Most of the 
honors were won by Jerseys and Guernseys. In 
every case the improved dairy implements 
were used, and the greatest care was taken to 
provide for cleanliness and order. The 
amount of salt used is surprisingly uniform in 
all the samples. There is a wide difference in 
opinion as to the use of butter color; it 
seems to be unnecessary in the butter made 
from the milk of Jerseys and Guernseys. 
Vol. XLVI. No. 1949. 
NEW YORK, JUNE 4, 1887. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS 
1100 PER YEAR. 
the machine on an angle. In this way the 
straw is put into each alternate space and Kept 
under cover, which is a great advantage. In 
the fall corn fodder or second crop hay is put 
into the space last emptied of wheat. 
Fig. 212 shows the basement plan. G' S iu 
the south end are cattle stands, while D A is 
a driving alley S 1 ?,' leet wide with paved bot¬ 
tom. This is a great convenience in cleaning 
out the bam, which can be done with a team 
and sled. On either side of this are placed 
box stalls with doors and mangers as shown. 
Each stall on the west side of the alley is of the 
ing the stalls are feet high and made tight. 
This gives a chance for light and a circula¬ 
tion of air all over the barn and also a chance 
for seeing every part of the basement wherever 
the owner may be. Near the north end is a * 
feed room—F R; bins for meal—M B; a 
box for mixing cut feed—C F B; and also a 
hydrant—H; also an alley for driving the cat¬ 
tle to and from the barn-yard—C A. The 
feed room and feed alley are both grouted and 
floors are very smooth so as to be easily kept 
clean. 
Water is supplied from a drilled well,pumped 
AN EXCELLENT BARN. 
Fig. 20S. 
The prizes were divided into seven classes. 
The first class called for five packages not less 
than 30 pounds net. In this class the second 
prize was won by the butter described by W. 
D.Stowe, and the third by that from the Wind¬ 
sor Creamery Co. The second class called for 
a package of not less than 30 pounds net, from 
creamery or factory. The prizes were won 
by the Amherst Creamery and the Westboro 
PRIZE-WINNERS AT THE DAIRY SHOW. 
Fig. 210. 
Creamery. The third class called for a pack¬ 
age of the same weight from private farm 
or dairy. These prizes were awarded to F. 
C. Stevens and L. P. Bailey. Class four called 
for packages between five and 10 pounds, uu- 
brokeu for delivery to consumer. The prizes 
were wou by F. C. Stevens, Lawrence Cream¬ 
ery and Egremont Creamery. Class five in¬ 
cluded samples of not less than three pounds 
in prints, moulds or rolls, from creamery or 
factory. The prizes went to the Ellington 
Creamery and the Windsor Creamery. Class 
six called for the same weight of butter from 
private farm or dairy. The prizes were won 
by Mrs. W. A. Sudduth, H. Gardner Weld, 
and Houghton Farm. The three pounds sent 
by Mrs. Sudduth came from Kentucky in a 
common tin box. Including the duplicate 
money paid by the Cooley creamer people, 
these three pounds brought 8110. Class seven 
called for samples of granular butter, not less 
thau two pounds in a package. The prizes 
were won by J. Francis Gulliver and Mrs. S. 
B. Taber W diets. 
FROM W. D. STOWE, WATERLOO, WIS. 
Our cows are chiefly Holsteins. The feed 
was principally silage corn cured dry. 
The cream w r as raised by the De Laval separ- 
Fig. 209. 
barn, which gives a perfect idea of its construc¬ 
tion without description. Fig. 210 shows the 
llltiJpini* lu'Tifc oil Kninor n1il*A fliw n len oy_ 
the granaries are filled with hay, the balance 
of the barn being used for grain. When 
drawing grain, commence filling at the north 
end and fill one space at n t ime, and when fin¬ 
ished the space left is at the south end. Here 
the thrashing machine is placed, aud the straw 
from the next space is run into the shed. The 
machine is next changed to the north, and the 
straw from the next space is run into the first 
space emptied. This is easily done by setting 
c Os 
OHEO RUNNING, 
EAST 5 61 * 
0 C ?p 
Fig. 211. 
size shown. Those on the east side are S’-^xS 
feet. A root collar is shown on the west side « 
and stairs at each end of this row of stalls. [ On 
the east side of this basement is a row of stalls 
which upon directly into the barn-yard, as 
shown. These ure also 8V.;x3 feet each and 
have mangel’s, as shown, fronting on the feed¬ 
ing alley marked F A. The partitions divid- 
by a windmill into n tank in tho dwelling 
house wheueo it overflows into a large cistern 
from which it is led by pipes to the hydrants 
in tho barn, as shown, and also to one in the 
shed, iu the horse barn aud in the barn-yard to 
n water trough. This barn is sided with 
matched pine and covered with IS-inch shaved 
shingles. The architect and builder was 
Nelson Dixon, Halls’ Comers, N. Y. 
N 1885 Mr. W. P. Rupert, of 
the town of Seneca, Ontario 
Co., N. Y., an old-time sub¬ 
scriber of the Rural, built a 
barn containing some novel¬ 
ties and much convenience. It 
stands on the east side of the 
highway and is distant 100 
feet therefrom. The front en¬ 
trance is on the west side and 
the ground slopes from the doors to the cen¬ 
ter of road which is about three feet lower. 
At Fig. 208 is shown the perspective of this 
barn with its pleasant surroundings. Attached 
to the southeast corner is a shed (not seen in 
cut) runuing east 50 feet, with a scale house at 
east end. 
The building cornering-out at the northeast 
comer is 34x46 feet, the west half being used 
for a carriage house, and the rest for a horse 
stable, harness room and stairs. The horses 
face the walls north and south, and are fed hay 
and grain from above through chutes from a 
floor which-is on a level with the main floor 
in the bam, to which it is connected by a pas¬ 
sage-way shown elsewhere. Near that and 
further to the north is seen a building used as 
a tool house, and in fall aud s‘pring as a pack¬ 
ing house for nursery stock, with n cellar be¬ 
neath. The general slope of the land about 
these buildings is toward the east. 
At Fig. 209 is showu an end bent of the main 
