. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . FIG. 13—PLAN SHOWING FLOOR DRAINAGE OF A COW BARN AT GLENCOVE, L. I., FOR CLIFFORD V. BROKAW, ESQ. upon the preference which each individual has for that partic-ular one. In large herds, say forty milking cows and upwards, it iscertainly desirable to collect the liquid manure in a liquidmanure pit, where it can be pum
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . FIG. 13—PLAN SHOWING FLOOR DRAINAGE OF A COW BARN AT GLENCOVE, L. I., FOR CLIFFORD V. BROKAW, ESQ. upon the preference which each individual has for that partic-ular one. In large herds, say forty milking cows and upwards, it iscertainly desirable to collect the liquid manure in a liquidmanure pit, where it can be pumped out, diluted as is neces-sary, and put upon the land. This is especially so in barnswhere little or no bedding is used. In the first rush of en- THE COW BARN 51 thusiasm for certified milk, the continual washing down ofthe cow barn with quantities of water was everywhere advo-cated. This suggestion was a perfectly natural ©ne fromthe standpoint of milk cleanliness, but it diluted the urine tosuch an extent that it was valueless for manure. To avoidthis, a special trap for the gutters was designed (Fig. 14.)This is a double trap with two outlets, one outlet for connec-.
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