Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-19
A stable with a ParIOr,

Following the quarter circle of the
stone roadway we come to the entrance
of the cow stable, and crossing its portals,
we are astonished at the extreme cleanli-
ness of the interior, though we have seen
enough to make US anticipate much at
tention to sanitary affairs in model
farm The air is pure and fresh, the
light invades the cornermost rafters, and
the horrifying squalor of the ordinary
habitation allowed to the bovine is SUI
perseded by an ethical economy SO ad-
mirable that humatarianism reproaches
us and pricks our consciences with the
contrast between this shelter for brutes
| and much inferier accommodations for
man in the tenements of large cities. The
stable is 100 feet wide; it has stalls for
forty-eight cows; the stalls are FIVE feet
wide; the managers are two feet wide; the
slanting platforms upon which the ami
mails stand are five and half feet long,
and each COW is allowed 900 cubic feet
of air space, or more than double the
usual quantity. The two rows of stalls
are separated by longitudinal passage
ten feet wide; there is a transverse
passage eight feet wide in the
centre, and another longitudinal one in
the rear of each row of stalls, of which
the floor is divided into four sections
The sloping platforms of the stalls end
in slightly inclined cutters, from which
the manure passes through convenient
traps into the cellar for storage. The
room is lighted by eighteen large double
windows, opening at the top and bottom
and for the early morning milkings fixed
lamps with brilliant refec,ors are EN-
ployed. On the north side there is {
small apartment with few chairs o.
stools, marble wash. stand, large mir
Tor, and an amplitude of towels. Who
ever looks into the mirror is reminded b.
an inscription over it, as conspicuous a.
his own image, that Handsome is tina
handsome does" This little room i
called 'the parlor," and the reader-es
pecially the practical farmer"-may b.
disposed to cry out against parlor in
stable as an absurd piece of Utepian ex
trayagance. It is in reality dressing
: room, and before milking-tim eacl
man is required to wash his face an,
hands and to brush his hail
{ tidiness of person being insisted upon
we 1OT2Ot W I0tk THAI tue uOOE Oh TIL
: barn is dry and sanded, and that Their
are no odors to offend the daintiest nos
trils. The beds of the animals ar
changed Eevery day, being formed G
! dried leaves spread upon the sanded plat
forms.
:. Over the entrance to the parlor an ur
: erring clock sedately whispers til
, seconds, and ten minutes before ii mark
8 A. N. and p M.-the milking-time-
= any visitors who may be in the barn al
! excluded; the milkmen (maids are q
!. anachronism) enter the dressing room an
z precisely as the fingers record the hor
I, they re-appear, with hands and fac,
Q clean and hair smooth, and sit down
their task. As each COW Ia MIXED, i
i yield is separately weighed and Il
). quantity recorded on slate, which
= passed with the milk to the dairymai
e who stores the warm, fragrant fluid !
r shallow pans during winter, and dee
lr pans surrounded by running water du
It ing the summer H. Rsde;n0,
Hasper's MGgdsine for October.