. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm. Dairying. 104 THE dairyman's MANUAL. manner, it should be double and laid with a gutter in it. The planks are necessarily laid crossing the beams, but to prevent drip into the cellar, and to save all the liquid, the planks should be laid double, with the joints broken. To make the floor in the very best manner, and quite water-tight and most durable, the first one should be well coated with hot tar, and the upper planks laid in this, getting the joints filled with the tar. A. Fig. 10.—PLAN OF STAN
. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm. Dairying. 104 THE dairyman's MANUAL. manner, it should be double and laid with a gutter in it. The planks are necessarily laid crossing the beams, but to prevent drip into the cellar, and to save all the liquid, the planks should be laid double, with the joints broken. To make the floor in the very best manner, and quite water-tight and most durable, the first one should be well coated with hot tar, and the upper planks laid in this, getting the joints filled with the tar. A. Fig. 10.—PLAN OF STANDING FLOOK. floor so laid will last for twenty years, or three times as long as any other. It is a good plan to give a plank floor a coat of whitewash under and on the top once a year, as the lime prevents decay. A floor thus treated would probably remain sound as long as the rest of the building. Such a plank floor should slope the same as any other, excepting that the gutter may be level, as the manure will be emptied through trap-doors into the cel- lar below. The manure is easily removed by drawing it forward to the doors with a broad hoe, when it falls, without further trouble. The plan of a stable floor is shown at figure 10. The next matter of importance is the yard. A yard must be roomy. For twenty-five cows, half an acre is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stewart, Henry. New York : Orange Judd
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