. 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 . The sash are removed en-tirely, and the blinds can then be easily operated from the in-side. The removal of the sash in summer is important, forthey are only in the way and become fly-specked and dirty, andshould be taken out and stored until cold weather. The stableis then kept dark, except at milking time, when the
. 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 . The sash are removed en-tirely, and the blinds can then be easily operated from the in-side. The removal of the sash in summer is important, forthey are only in the way and become fly-specked and dirty, andshould be taken out and stored until cold weather. The stableis then kept dark, except at milking time, when the smallestamount of light for proper milking is admitted, but care mustbe taken to hose the blinds down thoroughly, inside and outat least once a day, so as to wash off all particles of dust thatmay lodge upon them. A reenforced concrete barn is by allodds the best to keep out the flies, as the walls are cold and theflies do not like them. When a concrete building is kept cleanand dark the fly problem is solved. THE COW BARN 73 DOORS.—Wherever possible, sliding doors should in-variably be used in preference to swing doors. The swingdoor is a nuisance in a stable. In the hay barn the large doorsmay sometimes swing out, but even here the sliding type ofdoor is much
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