. 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 . TOOL HOUSE IN THE WOODS, SKYLANDS FARM, STERLINGTON, N. OLD FARM BUILDINGS ON LONG ISLAND—ARTISTIC, BUT UNSANITARY THE COW BARN 29 rious utensils of the cow barn—pitchforks, shovels, brooms,brushes, curry-combs, etc. It is always better to locate theyoung stock between the milking cows and the feed room, asthe mil
. 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 . TOOL HOUSE IN THE WOODS, SKYLANDS FARM, STERLINGTON, N. OLD FARM BUILDINGS ON LONG ISLAND—ARTISTIC, BUT UNSANITARY THE COW BARN 29 rious utensils of the cow barn—pitchforks, shovels, brooms,brushes, curry-combs, etc. It is always better to locate theyoung stock between the milking cows and the feed room, asthe milking cows should not be disturbed by traffic throughtheir quarters into the young stock barn. In planning for a given number of animals, it is necessaryto know approximately what ratio exists between the milkingcows, dry stock and young stock, so that the proper accommo-dations for each may be provided. This ratio is variableaccording to conditions. The owner may not desire to raisehis young stock, though in this case he loses one of the mostattractive and interesting occupations of the farm; but if hedoes, and the natural conditions prevail, from thirty per cent,to fifty per cent, of the entire herd will be young stock or drystock. Or, if he starts with a number of milking cows, accom-modations for from fifty per cent, to sev
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