. 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. 14—SPECIAL GUTTEB TEAP WITH TWO OUTLETS—ONE TO LIQUID MANUBEEEOEPTACLE, THE OTHEE TO THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM tion with a liquid manure pit and the other outlet for connec-tion with a general sewage disposal system. The change inconducting the gutter liquids either to the liquid manure pitor to the general sewa
. 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. 14—SPECIAL GUTTEB TEAP WITH TWO OUTLETS—ONE TO LIQUID MANUBEEEOEPTACLE, THE OTHEE TO THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM tion with a liquid manure pit and the other outlet for connec-tion with a general sewage disposal system. The change inconducting the gutter liquids either to the liquid manure pitor to the general sewage system is made by reversing thecover of the trap. This system in a way complicates theplumbing; and it seems so difficult to interest the farm as-sistant in it that it has for want of intelligent carrying out,been to all intents and purposes abandoned. The continualflooding of the cow barn with water, helpful as this admittedlyis in providing ideal conditions for the making of milk, hasbeen found not only, as has been stated above, to dilute theliquid manure unduly, but to make the stable very damp andcold, especially in winter. In several instances which havecome under the authors personal knowledge, this damp condi-tion of the cow barn has resulted disastrously t
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