Show W clean milk comes from modern barns well constructed and clean mangers urged concrete dairy barn floors and mangers will prove a big help in ill producing milk ot of high quality as 33 well as reducing the amount of 0 la ia bor bar required the U S public health service milk code provides that no dairy barn bam meets the requirements lor for producing high grade milk without a long lasting nonabsorbent sanitary floor such as ai concrete forms are made ot of one inch lurn lun ber b r well braced concrete tor for the floor is made with five gallons ot of water per sack ol of portland cement when sand and gravel are moist the mix should be plastic and workable but not too sloppy nor too s stiff L jy barn floors and mangers properly designed and built help assure clean comfortable healthy stock high quality milk build the manger curb first then the utter litter alley and the manger leave holes in concrete lor for future stall equipment it if not now available then build stall platforms these will vary according to the kind of cattle the mangers should be finished smooth with a steel trowel the con concrete cretel should be damp cured for at least five days belore before using |