314 JOHN M. PARKER. 
No. 
No. 
of 
Cattle. 
Cubic 
Space for 
Animal. 
Ventilation. 
Light. 
Water. 
Cellar. 
Manure. 
How 
Disposed of. 
I 
7 
465 
none 
poor 
city 
yes 
cellar 
2 
IO 
286 
( ( 
i < 
spring 
no 
outside barn 
3 
I 
440 
< < 
none 
city 
4 
6 
224 
( < 
poor 
spring 
5 
4 
143 
6 
7 
800 
stairway 
fair 
<( 
yes 
cellar 
7 
7 
416 
none 
good 
6 i 
well 
8 
12 
487 
a 
< 4 
9 
19 
H65 
good 
fair 
< < 
10 
3 
266 
poor 
poor 
11 
3 
1336 
none 
good 
puddle 
12 
12 
233 
< ( 
spring 
“ You will notice, as a rule, the cattle are far too crowded. 
In the city of Boston each animal must have 1,000 cubic feet 
of space, and probably with good ventilation that may be 
sufficient; at any rate it is an immense improvement on 
many farms in other parts of the State; but even 1,000 cubic 
feet are altogether inadequate if there is no ventilation. 
What must be the condition of the barns then, when, as in 
No. 5, there is only 143J- cubic feet for each animal, with no 
ventilation. In only three farms out of the twelve, you will 
notice, is there any attempt at ventilation, and even in these 
it is more in name than fact. And in not a single barn that I 
have been in is there any provision made for the admission of 
fresh air. 
“ Of the twelve barns visited four had good light, two had 
only fair light, five had very poor light, and one had no light 
at all. 
“ As a rule New England, farms have good water, but on 
some farms the wells are situated too near the yard and 
receive the surface drainage, and in some instances the cattle 
are even watered in creeks and puddles formed by the sur¬ 
face water. 
“ Keeping the manure in the cellar is another common 
practice. In eight of these twelve barns, the manure is kept 
in this way. At the farm referred to as No. 8, there are 
twelve cows, each cow with 487 cubic feet of space. This 
barn is well lighted, the windows facing the south, but there 
is no ventilation whatever, except when the door is open. 
