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Tht RURAL NEW.YORKER 
Pasture and Barn Notes 
Curbs for Box Stalls. —We have been 
putting some box stalls in a cow barn. 
The bases of the partitions on those we 
had in were badly rotted. To overcome 
this difficulty in the future, we have built 
up a cement foundation, 4x4, on which 
we have set the partitions for the stalls. 
We believe that this plan has two ad¬ 
vantages. In the first place, it will keep 
the bottoms of the wooden partitions up 
out of the wet and therefore keep them 
from rotting; and, in the second place, 
will keep liquid from running ont of tho 
stall and contaminating the floor adjacent 
to it, which in our case is a feed alley. 
In putting in a concrete floor, the same 
results should be accomplished by having 
the floors of the box stalls two or three 
inches lower than the floors outside. 
Home-Raised Steers for Beef. —This 
Winter we are looking forward to some 
really good beef from a Holstein steer 
move and add to it, side sheds for horees 
on one side, and beef cattle on the other, 
placing in position as shown on drawing 
enclosed. I shall want to cover over an 
enclosed silo, leaving a space for drive¬ 
way to cut silage or drive in. Will you 
give me any changes or suggestions you 
might make? I am looking to save labor 
and have a practical layout. w. J. f. 
Greenwich. Conn.' 
Single story barns are sometime#! built 
to be used in connection with an already 
existing storage barn, as in this case. The 
usual method, however, is to build the 
dairy barn at right angles to the storage 
barn, which makes the contents of the 
storage barn a little more readily avail¬ 
able for use in the dairy addition. In 
the North a two-story barn is usually 
preferred, as it is warmer, and for equal 
stock and storage space requires less lum¬ 
ber. A single story barn must be warmly 
built overhead to be warm and to prevent 
the condensation of moisture. 
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that will be about a year and nine months 
old in January, when we expect to kill 
him. We have raised this steer with al¬ 
most no noticeable cost. We took him as 
a calf and turned him out in the Spring 
with a cow that was not milking very 
much but which was not due to freshen 
for six months. In a dairy of any con¬ 
siderable size, there are quite likely to be 
such animals. The calf ran on the cow 
all Summer, and while he probably never 
got over six quarts of milk in a day, and 
most of the time not over two or three 
quarts, he got it in nature's own way. 
He also learned to be a good grazer. He 
was castrated in the Fall and we roughed 
him through the Winter ou straw and one 
feeding of hay a day. He grew quite a 
little in frame on this rough feed, but 
probably was not as heavy in the Spring 
as he was in the Fall. All this Summer, 
however, he has run on pasture with 
pretty good feeding and has made a great 
growth. He is now in splendid condition 
and we figure that by feeding him on a 
grain ration for perhaps a month or six 
weeks we are going to get several hun¬ 
dred pounds of really fine beef. In the 
meantime, we have another calf coming 
along under the same sort of treatment. 
Telling When Cows Are Bred.— 
Every year we have been disappointed by 
having cows that we supposed were safely 
bred prove not to be in calf, oftentimes 
as much as six months after they were 
bred. Such instances have meant a great 
loss in the production of the cow and have 
made it very difficult to keep a Fall 
dairy. We do not believe that our ex¬ 
perience along this line is unusual. Every¬ 
where dairymen are running along hoping 
that this cow or that one was bred until 
she suddenly comes in heat or failure to 
locate the calf by external examination 
proves that they have been pursuing a 
futile hope. The only remedy for this 
is by the internal examination which a 
skilled veterinarian can make. We are 
about convinced that this information 
about whether or not our cows are in calf, 
particularly in the case of the purebreds, 
is important enough so that we will make 
a contract with our veterinarian to call 
at the farm every .40 days or so, at his 
convenience, and go over the animals that 
we have reason to be suspicious of. 
DAIRYMAN. 
Construction of Dairy Barn 
I desire to build a dairy barn of tile, 
one story. 40 ft. wide, to accommodate 20 
head. Cheapness must be considered. 
Then I have a hay barn which I will 
In regard to the silo I would prefer an 
outdoor location. Work at silo filling 
time is carried on so rapidly with mod- 
> ern machinery that plenty of space must 
be provided. When a ton of silage can be 
cut and elevated to the silo in less than 10 
minutes considerable space must be pro¬ 
vided for men, teams and equipment, more 
than the ordinary barn floor can provide. 
With the high-priced help of the present 
no farmer can afford to have them de¬ 
layed because of lack of room. Another 
reason for wanting the silo outside is the 
cost of housing it. The cost of storage 
space in a modern barn is too great to 
warrant storing a silo in it when it can 
just as well stand outside. Then, too, a 
silo can seldom be built as high as it 
should be when built under the barn roof, 
its odor is sometimes objectionable, it is 
usually the first part of the barn to go 
down through decay, and. all things con¬ 
sidered. it seems that the best place for it 
is outside the barn, adjacent to the place 
where the most silage is to be fed. If it 
can open into the feed-room and be pro¬ 
vided with a cart or carrier, so much the 
better. 
The stable should be provided with am¬ 
ple ventilating facilities, and a study of 
the literature of the various barn equip¬ 
ment companies advertising in the farm 
press will be of great help here, as some 
of their books are excellent along this 
hoc. r. h. s. 
Raising Heifer’s First Calf 
We had a nice purebred heifer not 
quite two years old. which has freshened, 
and the calf was a heifer. Some say 
that it will not make a good cow because 
it is the heifer’s first calf. m, e. d. 
Maine. 
V\ hat the heifer will do when grown j 
depends upon the way in which you de¬ 
velop it by good care and feeding and 
the capacity of its dam and sire’s dam 
for milk and butterfat production. The 
fact that it is a first heifer from a heifer 
does not affect the case at all. A. s. A. 
Shrink in Milk 
I have a Jersey cow that has one teat 
which gives only about one quarter as 
much milk as any of the others. She had 
garget two years ago and that teat has 
not given its normal supply of milk since, 
seems to be somewhat shrunken and gives 
down the milk slowly, although it does not 
milk hard. She is due to freshen in about 
a month, and is nearly dry now. Is there 
anything I can do for it? She is a very 
good cow. m. M. M. 
New York. 
When a quarter of the udder has been 
badly attacked by garget a portion of the 
gland loses its function, as scar or tumor 
tissue replaces true secreting gland tis¬ 
sue. There is no remedy for that, but 
hard milking possibly might be improved 
by inserting sterilized dilators in the teat 
between milkings, or the veterinarian 
might find it necessary to use a teat bis¬ 
toury or to remove growths. Massage the 
quarter and strip it clean three times a 
day and at night rub in warm melted 
lard. This may help to increase milk flow 
slightly. a. s. A. 
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