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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 19, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
PLAN FOR A DAIRY BARN. 
I wish to build a barn (with silo at 
one end) for 50 cows. I have to buy 
the lumber and make the plans myself. 
Such frills as swing stanchions I cannot 
afford as yet, but what I want is a cheap, 
serviceable barn that can be built, not 
sacrificing durability for cheapness; at 
the same time no money in anything but 
what is to be absolutely necessary. My 
idea was to have a concrete foundation 
and a cement floor to conserve every par¬ 
ticle of manure. The barn itself to be 
constructed in hemlock or some equally 
cheap material. Could you give a sketch 
of the interior arrangement, showing the 
best way to arrange stalls, feed troughs, 
feed carriers, best overhead arrangement 
for storing the hay, the best way to build 
a silo in connection with the barn, 
whether it is better to combine the silo 
inside the barn or have it separate out¬ 
side, and any other little detail desirable? 
What is the best homemade wooden con¬ 
trivance for the steel stanchions? Is 
rock phosphate or acid phosphate the 
best and cheapest to use sprinkled on the 
temporary accumulations of manure 
around the stable? B. G. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
Your problem in regard to detailed 
plans for a dairy barn is one which must 
naturally be governed according to local 
conditions, although there are many fea¬ 
tures which have been found practical 
over a large part of the country, some 
of which you may be able to apply ad¬ 
vantageously. The accompanying dia¬ 
gram shows the interior arrangement for 
a barn to accommodate 25 cows and 
eight heifers, but it can be extended any 
A BUSINESS DEAL IN LIVE STOCK. 
A reader in Maine knows a man with 
a good farm, fairly well stocked with very 
ordinary animals. This man takes good 
care of his stock, likes purebred animals, 
but his farm is not paid for, and he has 
not the capital with which to buy regis¬ 
tered stock. This first man does not own 
a farm, but he has a little money, llis 
plan is to buy some registered animals, 
including a good bull, and put them on 
the farm of this other man to be cared 
for and handled. He wants to know 
what would be a fair trade for both par¬ 
ties in a deal of this kind. The man 
with the money thinks he ought to have 
a good deal to say about methods of feed¬ 
ing and breeding, but he would leave the 
rest to the other man. 
That is a pretty big question, regard¬ 
ing the stocking of another man’s farm 
with registered cattle and sharing the 
profits. The purebred stock business is 
on an entirely different basis from what 
it was 25 years ago. Like most other 
''things, it has got down to being a trade, 
and while almost anyone can build up a 
herd, and maintain them for his own use, 
comparatively few can expect to become 
successful in the business of breeding 
and selling purebred cattle. The thing 
that causes trouble at the start is the 
fact that the registry papers are supposed 
to add to the value of an animal. They 
really ought to, and they would if only 
expert persons had always had the man¬ 
agement of the breeding of the animals. 
But of course anyone who has the price 
is free to engage in the business, and 
there are so many things that can be 
done to cattle in the way of mismanage¬ 
ment, that a great many purebred scrubs 
are in che country to-day. So a novice 
in the business might spend weeks in look¬ 
ing over catalogues and studying the 
lines of breeding of a certain breed of 
cattle, and then end up in buying animals 
not nearly so good as a lot of grades. As 
length desired. The cement floor should 
all be laid on a slant, so that no water 
will stand on it. The gutters should be 
six inches deep on the stall side and four 
inches next to the wall. The mangers 
are formed with a concave bottom rising 
eight inches and then running nearly 
level to the side of the barn, making the 
manger 3% feet wide at the top. 
In regard to stanchions you should in¬ 
stall chain hanging tubular iron stanch¬ 
ions, as they will prove to be enough 
more durable, convenient and comfort¬ 
able for the cow to pay the difference in 
cost. For a herd of this size the only 
feed carrier you need is a four-wheeled 
truck holding about 20 or 25 bushels, 
which you can fill at the silo and push 
along in front of each manger, feeding a 
row of cows at one trip. If you can lo¬ 
cate the barn on a side hill so that you 
can drive into the second story about 
midway of the side you can run your hay 
into two large haymows very easily with 
a horse fork. The barn should be about 
24 feet high from sill to plate, which 
gives plenty of room for hay storage. 
I believe the two best methods of 
building a silo is with hollow tile or 
wooden staves. The tile would be more 
expensive, but it would also be more dur¬ 
able. It is better to build the silo out 
of doors and board up the passage-way 
between the silo door and the barn for 
a feed alley. The water should be piped 
into a water trough in the barn, or if you 
have running water it may be piped di¬ 
rectly into the mangers twice a day for 
the cows to drink. A litter carrier may 
be used, or a wagon may be driven 
through the stable each day to haul the 
manure and refuse directly to the field. 
If your soil needs phosphoric acid and 
you care to purchase it in the form of 
acid phosphate it is all right to mix it 
with the manure, but if you only want a 
stable absorbent land plaster is much 
cheaper and just as eifective for this 
purpose, although it does not contain as 
much fertilizer value. c. s. g. 
an illustration: A develops a strain of 
a certain breed. The strain starts from 
some cow that has nothing remarkable 
back of her, but they have been mated in 
such a way, and fed and cared for in 
such a way that the best results have 
been produced, and this cow is the re¬ 
sult. Now A is an expert in his busi¬ 
ness. He handles this cow in the very 
best way that she could be handled. He 
does not break her down by spasmodically 
feeding great quantities of heavy grain, 
nor does he do any of the things that may 
be done to injure the vitality of an ani¬ 
mal. So the cow makes a big record at 
the pail and produces a number of great 
offspring. The offspring are sold at big 
prices, some to men who have the knowl¬ 
edge of properly handling them, and 
some to men who have not. 
Now we will suppose that a descendant 
of this cow falls into poor hands. I’lease 
remember that this does not necessarily 
mean a poor man or a poor feeder. The 
cow can be spoiled just as easily in a 
rich man’s barn with too much feed as 
she can in a poor man’s barn with too 
little. This cow’s reproducing functions 
are weakened by improper management 
and she produces offspring from an 
equally high-bred bull that in turn has 
been spoiled by improper handling. You 
can readily see that the offspring will be 
of little value, but the pedigree will be 
of the very best. On the other hand, this 
high-bred bull of a weakened constitution 
might be bred to a hardy scrub cow and 
produce a much better calf than he would 
from the high-bred weakling. 
But we will suppose'that the beginner 
starts right. He is naturally fitted for 
the business, and goes through a good 
course of training with an expert breeder, 
and finishes by buying cattle that have 
been bred right and handled right. Now 
the question is, will he succeed finan¬ 
cially? I firmly believe that he cannot 
keep up the high standard of his herd 
and at the same time force them to make 
the records that the other fellow will 
make who cares for nothing but the mak¬ 
ing of the big record. It is the fashion 
to buy the animals that have the biggest 
records back of them, so will the man 
who aims to produce the animals of real 
value be able to sell them at a living 
profit? 
My advice to this man in Maine who is 
in debt for his farm and is a good man 
with cattle, is to put a good purebred bull 
at the head of his herd. He can buy a 
young one that is as likely to do well for 
him as any, for $100. Then .buy an old 
registered cow or a heifer calf at about 
the same price. No farmer who ought 
to be managing a farm at all is too poor 
to do this. (The other fellow ought to 
keep working for some one else at the 
present high wages until he has saved 
enough to make a decent start.) In this 
way he can make a start in purebreds 
and at the same time greatly improve the 
quality of his whole herd. In time he 
will have all purebreds and they will not 
be purebred scrubs either, for one is not 
likely to retain a purebred in his herd 
if she is not as good as the grades that 
stand beside her. If these men want to 
go into partnership in breeding cattle, 
they ought to know best on what terms 
they can start. If they don’t, they would 
better not start. j. gkant morse. 
If the farmer is a good caretaker of 
stock and he likes that side of farm life, 
he should have registered animals. They 
would cost a little more to start with, 
but I believe it would be beneficial to 
both. They would take a greater inter¬ 
est, give them better attention, and it 
would not take any more feed than keep¬ 
ing grade or scrubs. It does not take 
much of a cow to produce $100 worth of 
product in a year. 
The man who wishes to furnish the 
money could invest $1,000 in eight reg¬ 
istered cows. If he is careful he could 
buy them for that price. They would 
not be the most fashionable in breeding, 
but could be fairly good producers. They 
should all be safe in calf to a registered 
sire. If the farmer has no unforeseen 
mishap with them the milk for one year 
and the calf when two months old should 
be worth all the cow cost. I have seen 
this proven many a time. Whatever you 
do feed them all they will eat of an eco¬ 
nomical ration and that would include 
silage. The man who furnishes the 
money should receive one-third of the 
gross income for his share and the 
farmer two-thirds for feeding and labor. 
This, I believe, to be a fair proposition 
and could be made to work out success¬ 
fully for both. J. ALDUS HERR. 
There are so many things to be con¬ 
sidered that it is very hard to decide just 
what a fair division of profits would be. 
If the man furnishing the money to buy 
the animals assumes all risk of loss and 
the owner of the farm is only holden 
for reasonable care and feed, the title of 
the animals should remain with him and 
at least one-half of the profits or increase 
in value of the herd should be his. If, 
on the other hand, the owner of the farm 
assumes one-half the risk of loss and 
pays one-! .... the taxes, one-third of the 
increase might be nearer fair for the man 
who furnishes the money. 
In relation to methods of breeding and 
feeding the man who furnishes the money 
should have the final decision as to the 
former, but the man who has the animals 
in charge should be allowed the fullest 
possible liberty as to the latter. Unless 
he is capable of judging how to feed for 
best results, having the animals under 
his eye all the time, no amount of super¬ 
vision will help him. 
There should be at the very start a fair 
understanding on the part of the parties 
in interest and a full knowledge of the 
conditions which surround the handling 
of live stock. Going along with this 
there should be a full appreciation of 
the many disappointments which are 
sure to be met even when the animals 
are of the best and their feed and care 
ideal. The arrangement should be made 
permanent as far as possible, as it often 
takes years to work out results commen¬ 
surate with the expenditures and the la¬ 
bor involved. The man putting in the 
money has a right to know that the 
owner of the farm will stick, that he will 
not get discouraged and that he will put 
his best efforts into the work, not for one 
year or for two, but till results shall 
come. The owner of the farm has a 
right to expect equal consideration on 
the part of the man who furnishes the 
money. He must be ready not only to 
continue the money in the business, but 
as changes in breeding animals become 
necessary he must be ready with more 
capital to furnish the new animals, as it 
will take a period of time covering more 
than one generation and probably more 
than two generations of the animals to 
build up a paying herd. 
It will be best for both men to stay 
out of the business unless they have a 
genuine love for the animals and are look¬ 
ing for rewards other than mere money 
gain to come from their labors. 
Maine. b. walker m’keen. 
Slobbering. 
How can I stop a horse from slobber¬ 
ing when fed in the stable on clover and 
Timothy hay mixed, corn for grain? 
l. b. c. 
Have the teeth attended to by a vet¬ 
erinarian. White clover is most apt to 
cause slobbering, as it seems to contain 
an acrid substance; but some stockmen 
contend that the slobbering from pastur¬ 
ing White clover is due to a tiny milk¬ 
weed, present in the pasture at the same 
time, and not to the clover itself. It also 
is claimed that feeding burdock leaves 
and roots to slobbering horses will stop 
the trouble. We have not tried this in 
practice, but it might be worth trying. 
Usually it is necessary to keep the horse 
away from the feed which causes slob¬ 
bering. Small doses of alum may be 
given and the mouth swabbed two or 
three times a day with a solution of half 
an ounce of powdered alum in a quart 
of cold water. a. s. a. 
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