People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Old-Time Barns. [ARTICLE]

Old-Time Barns.

American Cultivator. There is some difference between the modern barns, m which the manure never freezes and cattle never shiver, and those ancient structures with cracks between the boards through which the wind could enter freely, and in which one needed to chop the manure up with an axe before it could be shoveled out. This difference means that a less amount of food is needed to keep up the animal heat, that more milk can be produced for more months in the year, and that the farmer can milk and care for his stock without suffering from the cold. Again, he is more apt to be thorough about it than he would be if it was zero weather in the barn. We know of modern barns in which water would not freeze in our coldest nights, yet that are so well ventilated that there is no disagreeable odor in them or to be imparted to the milk. Those who have such barns make money farming and enjoy the business at the same time. On the other hand, we know of some barns so different in construction and detail that those who work in them hate the milk business and the cows as well, declaring that there is no protic in the business. And, finally, we should think the cows would hate the one who owns them.