Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — A Dutch Cow-Stable. [ARTICLE]

A Dutch Cow-Stable.

A writenin Scribner's thus describes a Dutch cow-stable: “After looking over the farm we were taken toward the house, and entered a large door leading into ..n enormous room, the like of which we had never seen. The walls were neatly whitewashed. The little windows were hung with white curtains. Along each wall Was a strip of clean brickwork, and next lo this a whitewashed gutter; then came, for a width of about six feet, a flooring of handsome old Dutch tiles, well laid, then two rows of Upright posts, the use of which was rot at all obvious. Between these two rows of posts was a wide passage-way 3eading the whole length of the hall. There were several tables, on which were bright utensils and some handsome'articles of pottery. We congratulated ourselves on seeing the largest and cleanest dairy we had ever met with, but on a second look the absence of milk and of the evidence of daily use led us to inquire, and we found to out surprise that we wer ■ in a cow-stable, which had been put in c rder for the summer. Except for the stanchions and lying-poles, and the gutter behind the stalls, there was nothing to. indicate the use intended.”