Show ww modem milk house ouse JJ built D ailt under drive idea could be used 0 on many midwest farms like most people farmers have a desire to 0 o make use of all available space in and around their servi service ce buildings F few ew however thought of locating a modern milk house under a driveway that this is possible Is shown in the accompanying picture like so many midwestern barns the two story structure Is located so that half of it extending from front to rear rests on a ridge of land in this case the rid ridge ge Is about eight feet high only that portion ot of the first floor which Is built on the low ground Is used tor for milking operations this eliminated th tl jab b of excavating un 0 o t ka 1 E the above picture shows one idea the farmer might use to make use of all available space in and around service buildings der the ridge also however it created the problem of building a milk house which would be convenient to the milking area and not be affected by drainage from the sloping land since the driveway to the mow followed the ridge me line it was a comparatively easy jog to construct the milk house beneath this natural dirt ramp and to connect it to the adjacent stanchion section of the barn the roof of the milk house Is strengthened with heavy steel beams protein supplement cuts swine production costs farmers with ample supplies of grain may be tempted to fill the hog sell self feeder with corn and cut down on the amount of or even eliminate the protein supplement such a step is not as thrifty as it ii may seem j experiments have sh shown ow that ill hogs fed corn alone in dry lot 0 rea quire 11 to 1 12 2 bushels ot of corn per hundred pounds of grain when i a good protein supplement 13 used in the ration pounds of pork can be produced with five and one halt half to six bushels of corn and 50 pounds protein supplement with hog and teed feed prices what they are this maans means that cery bus bushel b el of corn fed with a good cpr protein 0 supple supplement mentis Is worth 22 t to 0 per bushel while hogs hags fed corn alone return only to per bushel of corn consumed hogs fed grain and a balanced supplement will reach market weight in five and one half to six months |