. 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 . cial place has been assigned them in the planshown by Fig. 3, where they are intended to be cleaned as wellas stored. A cupboard is not the place for them. Iron cup-boards with outside ventilation have been tried, but it is im-possible to keep any closet which is closed by a door from be-coming foul and infected with
. 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 . cial place has been assigned them in the planshown by Fig. 3, where they are intended to be cleaned as wellas stored. A cupboard is not the place for them. Iron cup-boards with outside ventilation have been tried, but it is im-possible to keep any closet which is closed by a door from be-coming foul and infected with rubbish. To hang the utensilson the walls or place them on slate shelves, and to keep all inplain view and where any uncleanliness is detected at once, isthe only solution of the problem. We have now set forth the requirements of the cow barn inall their detail and carefully considered them in the light ofmodern sanitary research. Though good milk needs the ac-commodations of a dairy for its further care, it must be re-membered that the actual quality of the product is establishedat the cow bam, and that milk will never be better than it iswhen it leaves there. As the next step in its production hasto do with the dairy, we will now proceed to a discussion ofthat Chapter IIITHE DAIRY THE location of the dairy should be such as shall be mostconvenient for the simple and easy handling of the milkafter it has been drawn from the cow. In large herds of ahundred milking cows or more, it is probably better to locatethe dairy at a distance and take the milk to it either by trolleyor by cart. It was thought at one time that, for sanitary pur-poses, the dairy should be at least 75 ft. distant from the cowbarn, but this is not soâprovided, however, that the cow barnis properly designed and cared for. It is much easier to takecare of milk in the dairy than in the cow barn, and if it werenecessary to choose between a clean dairy and a clean cow barn,it would be preferable to cho
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