Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1911 — DAIRY AND CREAMY [ARTICLE]

DAIRY AND CREAMY

COVERED BARNYARDS. ■; a ' I. " "" ■"■■"- Acte as a Labor daver and the Cows Are Made Comfortable. Prom experience gained by practical dairymen who have been in the habit or allowing their cows the freedom of a closed shed or covered barn yard and using the stable only at milking time. It has been found that the cows kept much cleaner than when stelbied and that the milkiug stable is in a more sanitary condition making it easier to produce clean milk. By this method there is less difficulty in providing cows with an abundance of fresh air, and they are more vigorous and healthy and have better appetites than when kept in the stable. Since they can move about and get exercise they will not suffer in cold weather if the temper-, ature is somewhat lower than in the ordinary labor. Labor is saved, as the shed can be bedded much more easily and Quickly than can stalls there is little stable cleaning to bo done, and the manure is hauled directly from the shed to the field at any time most convenient and when least damage io done the land by tramping. Another advantage is the saving of fertility much more completely. -