. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. 150 DAIRY FARMING. true that of late years a great improvement has taken place in the construction of farm-builil- ings, the preservation of manure in these cases having had the attention devoted to it that it merits, but in most of the older farmsteads there is still a deplorable want of such accommodation. The bare fact that about 30 in. of rain fall annually over Great Britain and Ireland ought long ago to have suggested the necessity of jiro- tccting the manure-heap from such delu
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. 150 DAIRY FARMING. true that of late years a great improvement has taken place in the construction of farm-builil- ings, the preservation of manure in these cases having had the attention devoted to it that it merits, but in most of the older farmsteads there is still a deplorable want of such accommodation. The bare fact that about 30 in. of rain fall annually over Great Britain and Ireland ought long ago to have suggested the necessity of jiro- tccting the manure-heap from such deluges. The first want of the present day, then, where they are not already provided, we may take to be covered yards. About this there is not the slightest room to doubt, for a loss of manure is equivalent to a diminished produce. The great reason why we water, or it runs away to waste, unless there liappens to be a field adjacent on which it can be made to run at will. Covered yards remove to a great extent the dilliculties connected with farm- yanl manure, and the liquid portion of it becomes a less didicult problem, because it is almost wholly soaked up by the solid, and is not, as in the case of open yards, increased in quantity and equally decreased in quality by the adJition of unlimited rain-water. Covered yards, however, on most daiiy-farms can only be made available for young stock—dairy-cows, unless ban'en, will be out of place in them, because they gore each other, and so bring on abortion. Farm-yard manure, owing to its complex. 1.^.1 ^If^-''"'" "^ %r. 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 Sheldon, John Prince. London ; New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
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