Dairy farming

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...price, one should certainly hesitate to spend more than $100 per cow for the barn, including milk room, and silo, and storage place for the other dairy feeds. On the corn-belt farm, where few cows are kept and where there is an abundance of straw, the cows may run in an open shed. If there is a milking shed in which the cows are milked and fed grain, very clean milk may be obtained. No system is better for the health of the animals than running loose in a good shed, but where dairying is made the primary business a regular dairy barn is ordinarily desired. rum AM AT (NO OF.BARN Fig. 43.--Cross section of a barn showing the King system of ventilation. The air enters near the ceiling on the sides and is drawn out through large flues opening near the floor. QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 1. What materials are used for barn floors in your region? Describe the floor in some good barn, and tell how it was made. 2. What different kinds of stanchions are used? 3. Are manure carriers used in any barns? If so, what kind is used, and what did it cost? 4. Does any barn in the region have the King system of ventilation? If so, describe it. 5. If any barn has been built in the region in the past few years, find the cost per cow. 6.. Draw a floor plan.for a barn to hold 6 horses, 15 cows, and young stock. Or change the numbers of stock to suit the conditions. Show dimensions of stalls, mangers, etc., and location of milk house. LABORATORY EXERCISES 12. Study of a Barn. Arrange with the owner to visit a good dairy barn in the region, and study its general arrangement. A tape measure and thermometer will be required. Some of the points to be determined are as follows: Length, width, height of posts, height of peak, height of ceiling in cow barn. Capacity for hay, silage, grain. See...