Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — THE DAIRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE DAIRY.

Comfort at Fan I lire. Many dairymen with big herds which they have to drive to distant pastures would do well to follow the example of a successful New York farmor. Realizing the force expended by a dairy herd traveling to and from the pasture nearly a mile (hekeeps fifty cows,) a stout board shed has been erected at the home end of the lot, large enough to shelter the entire herd and make a tight room for the spring house. Here also stools, bran, etc., are kept. When milking time arrives, the milkers drive to the pasture with pails and cans. The cows, Deing messed "regularly, are at the shed, the stanchions are opened and no time is lost. Each cow quietly takes her place and no dog

is required. The night’s milk is left in cans to be carried to the factory with that drawn next morning. The milkers are always housed if it rains, and during the heat of the day the cows find the shelter of the shed a grateful one, the stanchions being locked. The overflow from the spring finds its way into a trough on the north side of the shed aivay from the sun where the cows help themselves. There is no platform nor floor to the shed. Manure that accumulates is scraped up and spread on the pasture. No time is lost bringing up and turning away the cows, no manure is wasted, and the cows lead lives of unbroken quiet, paying their owner handsomely. Another thing seldom considered: The noise, bustle and stir about the home which milking time always causes, where such a large herd is brought up morning and evening, are entirely obviated, and the invasion of flies is unheard of.— Farm and Home.