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Show NEW BARN PLANS FOR DAIRY COWS Designed for Farmers Having Hav-ing Less Than 6 Animals. New plans have been designed by the agricultural engineer working with the dairy extension office at the North Carolina State college by which cow stalls and stanchions of lumber may be built at home by those who wish to remodel old barns to house dairy cattle The pluns have been designed In response re-sponse to many requests from persons per-sons having a few cows and no place to keep them. Dsing these plans, barns, stables or sheds may be made sanitary and convenient for handling a small dairy herd. A. T. Holman, agricultural engineer, who designed the new plans, says they are Intended for the small producer having less than six cows. This class includes the family cows and the small herds from which sour cream Is sold. The plans are not recommended for those in the dairy business and producing pro-ducing milk on a comparatively large scale. As explained by Mr. Holman, the plans show three complete stanchions stan-chions and cow stalls including the feeding alley, manger, platform, gutter gut-ter and rear walkway. Everything is to be built of lumber except the bottom bot-tom of the gutter, which is of concrete. con-crete. Mr. Holman says one of the best features of the new set of plans is the low cost of construction. Only one sack of cement and about 450 board feet of lumber are needed to build stanchions and stall for three cows. The average cost of the materials used should be around S3 for one cow. The designs are simple, permitting any farmer, handy with tools, to do his own work. |