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Show Modern Type of Dairy Barn That Insures Big Returns From Herd I ! P " 'Li - ttrrr I P - l ! r!K Hrf r? Fr-il H I I i i jbCTJy jjfjei By WILLIAM A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and stive advlc FREE OF COST on all problems pertaining: to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account ac-count of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, h is, without with-out doubt, the highest authority on the subject. Address all Inquiries to William Wil-liam A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue. ave-nue. Chicago, 111., and only Inclose two-cent two-cent stamp for reply. Profit in the dairy business comes from getting the largest possible amount of milk at the lowest cost for feed and labor. Cows that are cold In winter and bedeviled by flies In summer cannot produce the amount of milk they are capable of giving. But when in winter they are housed in a comfortable well-ventilated barn, the food they consume goes to make milk rather than to keep their bodies warm. And at milking time In summer the cows are brought up, and wddle they are consuming their milk-making ration ra-tion are to some extent protected from flies and can be milked without much trouble. While great stress has been laid on the comfort of cows, It cannot be made too strong. Tests time nnd again have shown that a cow that is housed in a barn that protects her from the wither in winter, but at the same time Is equipped with a system of ventilation ven-tilation that keeps up a continuous circulation cir-culation of fresh air without drafts will produce a great deai more milk than when she is cold and uncomfortable. uncomfort-able. Further tests have proved that keeping the fresh water available to' the cows at all times Increases the milk flow as much as 20 per cent. These are proven facts. Another profit-making feature of the modern dairy barn Is Its equipment. The barns are so designed that the work of feeding and caring for the animals an-imals and keeping the barn clean and sanitary can be done more quickly and at a saving of time, which means money, especially If the work is done by hired men. A good example of the modern type of dairy barn Is shown In the Illustration. Illustra-tion. Here is a frame building 36 feet wide and 84 feet long that will accommodate ac-commodate comfortably 24 milk cows, their calves, and provide storage space for the feed they will consume throughout the months when they are kept Indoors. The building Is of frame construction and has a hollow clay tile silo adjoining It and connected connect-ed with it by a feed room. The stable has a concrete floor Into which are set, when the concrete Is laid, 24 steel stall partitions, 12 on each side and facing a driveway that runs through the center of the building. build-ing. This center driveway Is called the feed. alley, while behind the stalls are the litter alleys. Sunk Into the floor at the hack of the stalls Is a gutter, which holds the manure accumulation accu-mulation and makes it more simple to remove It. Over the alleys Is a carrier track on which runs carriers that bring the feed to the stall heads and that remove re-move the manure. When this method is contrasted with the old basket for feed and the wheelbarrow for manure, it will be seen how much time and effort can be saved by the use of modern mod-ern equipment. Above the stable Is the mow floor, where the hay and bedding for the animals an-imals are stored. A study of the floor plan which accompanies ac-companies the exterior view of the building shows the arrangement and the equipment In the stable. |