. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . be provided with a neat, covered feed bin at the end. The remainder of the building may be used for variouspurposes, for a carriage house if a horse is kept, or forwood, coal, storage, etc. A stairway may be made inone corner leading to the upper floor, and the pump andcistern may be conveniently placed under it. Whereonly one cow is kept, a very cheap shed with no upper DAIRY BUILDIiJGS. 115 floor will be sufficient, and forty dollars will be amplysufficient to supply a family cow with every comfort andconvenience. The floor shou
. The dairyman's manual. A practical treatise on the dairy .. . be provided with a neat, covered feed bin at the end. The remainder of the building may be used for variouspurposes, for a carriage house if a horse is kept, or forwood, coal, storage, etc. A stairway may be made inone corner leading to the upper floor, and the pump andcistern may be conveniently placed under it. Whereonly one cow is kept, a very cheap shed with no upper DAIRY BUILDIiJGS. 115 floor will be sufficient, and forty dollars will be amplysufficient to supply a family cow with every comfort andconvenience. The floor should be of cement or brick, orof hard-rammed clay. Wood is the least desirable cement floor is the best, and if well made it is vermin-proof. It should be made of one part of Rosendalecement and three parts clean sand, mixed dry and thenwith water into a thin mortar, to which add seven partsof coarse gravel. This should be laid three inches deepand have a top coat of half an inch of the clear mortarfor a finish. A washing with a few pails of water occa-. Fig. 14.—STABLE WITH POOIiTRT-HOtfSE. sionally will clean ofE such a floor and keep it safest manner of fastening for a cow is a broadleather strap around the neck, with, a ring in it, and ashort rope tied into an auger-hole near the top of thefront of the trough, having a snap-hook attached to thefree end. A plan for a stable to accommodate the family cowand one or two horses, with a poultry-house annexed, andsuitable for a modest country residence, is given at fig-ures 14 and 15. The central part comprises two horse 116 THK dairymans MANUAL. stalls, five by ten feet, and a loose box for a cow, sevenand a half by ten feet, with a passage, in which is a feedbin, room for a fodder cutter and feed box, and stairs tothe hay loft. Over the feed box is a hay shute from theloft above. The poultry-house adjoins the passage, fromwhich two doors open into it. This house is eighteen bytwelve feet, and has a sloping fron
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