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Farm Buildings 
Arrangement of Stable. 
I am enclosing a floor plan of our sta¬ 
ble. which I believe you will agree with 
me is poorly arranged. We have just 
come on this place, and I would like to 
have some practical suggestions for its 
rearrangement. All floors are now of 
wood, except as noted, even the cow stall, 
floors and gutter. The three three-foot 
squares with X marked in them denote 
openings in the barn floor above to send 
down hay, fodder, etc. It is intended to 
keep at least three horses, six cows and 
eventually some sheep. The east side 
as noted is built into the side of a hill, 
with a roadway above leading into the 
barn. This stone side allows water to 
come through and form on the brick and 
dirt floor parts of the stable. What is 
your suggestion? F. M. 
Saugerties, N. Y. 
While you have given an excellent 
plan of your stable, it is a little difficult 
to rearrange it without knowing the rela¬ 
tion of the barn to other buildings and 
the general lay of the land. So far as the 
stable itself is concerned, there is room 
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house there should be a good source of 
fresh cold water, and if a spring be 
where it may be tapped it would seem to 
me that the problem of obtaining the re¬ 
quired water would be simple indeed. 
Spring water is usually pure and cold, 
two invaluable requisites, and if it be 
continuous I should assuredly tap it. 
As for the suspected dampness I do not 
think that spring water is any more like¬ 
ly to cause dampness than water running 
almost continuously from a faucet. The 
danger lies in this: that if the building 
is constructed with one wall in the hill¬ 
side and if the spring wets the soil of that 
side, the water is likely to Seep through 
the wall into the building, and in that 
way be a nuisance. To prevent this trou¬ 
ble, if it were desired to inclose the 
spring in the room itself, the outside of 
the wall, against the earth bank, would 
have to be coated over with a very rich 
coat of cement; putting it on the inside 
of the wall would not sei’ve the purpose. 
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Plan of Stable Floor. 
for all the stanchions, horse and box 
stalls that you need along the west side; 
these might face the west and permit you 
to drive through the stable with a wagon 
to remove the manure from all the ani¬ 
mals each day, or the animals might face 
the east and the manure be thrown out 
of the building on the west side. This 
is the old-fashioned way, but modern 
methods require the removal of manure 
from the stables to a distance of at least 
50 feet each day, and facilities for driving 
a wagon or manure spreader through the 
stable and loading it directly from the 
gutters are preferable. This would also 
allow you to remove the manure from 
sheep pens occupying the eastern half 
of the stable and, ou the whole, would be 
most satisfactory, I think. A large door 
at each end would permit you to drive 
directly through the stable without turn¬ 
ing. The stable floor and driveway, at 
least, should be of concrete and windows 
enough to flood the stable with light 
should be provided. You will find some 
good suggestions for arrangement of sta- 
bles in “Barns and Outbuildings,” Bulle¬ 
tin 30, and “Construction of Sanitary 
Dairy Stables,” Bulletin 23, issued in 
1005 and 1900 from the State College of 
Agriculture at Ithaca, N. Y. If not out 
of print, these will be sent you upon ap¬ 
plication to the College. m. b. d. 
Building a Milk House. 
I am contemplating building a milk 
house in hillside just above my dwelling 
house, stone or concrete. Which is bet¬ 
ter? There is a nice spring in the side 
of hill. Shall I include spring of water 
in milk house or not? Some say a spring 
in a milk house has a tendency to draw 
dampness, which is not good for fruits 
(canned), milk, butter and other pro¬ 
ducts. Could the water be drained into 
a basin in milk house and surplus water 
led off through a pipe some way, or would 
it be better to have a separate room for 
Spring? I would like better to have 
spring in milk house if it does no harm. 
What do you say? n. b. f. 
West Virginia. 
Either stone or concrete would make 
a very serviceable milk-house, but of the 
two I would prefer concrete if there be 
a source of coarse clear sand and suitable 
gravel or crushed stone near at hand; 
the concrete is so much more easily han¬ 
dled. and so much more easily molded into 
the required form; at the same time it 
is reasonable in its cost. In every milk- 
It could be prevented in this way, and to 
me more satisfactorily, by constructing 
the building a short way from the spring 
at a lower level; in the milk-room make 
a good milk pool as large as is desired 
and connect it with pipe to a similarly 
constructed receptacle where the spring 
is at its best flow. The water could be 
allowed to flow continually if desired or 
it. could be shut off; moreover, the ex¬ 
cess water could follow its present sat¬ 
isfactory course and it would not soak 
into the milk-room. 
It would be satisfactory to have the 
milk pit or pool in the milk-Toom itself, 
basing this statement upon the observa¬ 
tion of two milk-rooms containing their 
pools and milk, butter and cheese. Per¬ 
haps the pool could be kept cooler, and 
the cooling room cooler and cleaner, if 
the pool were in a small room adjoining 
the lower room. I think it would be 
well arranged this way, although the 
other might be cheaper in construction 
and about as satisfactory with good care. 
The water in the pool should be changed 
daily for best results. I like the idea of 
the spring running through pipe into pool 
and out again through overflow; it is also 
handy to have a hole in the bottom with 
a shut-off having its handle above the 
water surface. Be very careful that suf¬ 
ficient ventilation is procured, also win¬ 
dow surface, so that the sun may be per¬ 
mitted to shine within the rooms 
J. w. H. 
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Coal Tar Paint For Shingles.— 
Have you or any of your readers had any 
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with coal tar, and what, if any, are the 
objections to it? What cheap substance 
can be used for thinning coal tar so it 
will spread better when used as a paint? 
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