Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-02-04
coMFoRT FoR STOCK.
How an Ohio Farmer Rendered His Old
fFaN Stable Frost-Proof.

Fi.A Stable Frost-ProoG
Having just flushed warming up an
old stable that our COWS may take
lots of comfort this winter. as we'll as
give more milk, thought would tell
the readers Of this paper about it. and
see If some Of them would not 60 and
do likewise. Half-inch lumber is as
good as any. and cheaper than inch
lumber You will find the work easy
and rapid. but II you have not good
lumber that you wish to put on, then
do little more work. and in the end
II will be we'll. Don't say: "a can't"
for you can. First take your horse
and stone-boat or wagon. and 60 all
round the barn and door-yard. and
get all the old boards and planka No
matter If they are II little soft they
will do. and If short you can splice 1t
from one grit to another. Get all You
can find, and put them by the stable
doors in piles, taking little care to
assert them with reference to thick
ness, 30 that the work when done is as
smooth as may be.
Next provide yourself with nails Of
different sises--sixes and Fights and q
few spikes--get the old saw filed up o
little and give the axe touch on the
grindstone. soyou can work with some
comfort. Begin in the coolest corner
lest the materials do not 40 around.
You may as we'll put on the planks
first all together. Spike bit of scant-
ling or thick board on the sill IN range
with the girts to hold the lower ends
Of the boards When you have got on
a row two feet wide, 90 to the stack,
get straw and pack in the space be-
tween the siding and lining. as full
as possible. Continue till you are all
done, but do not forget to put in slide
window now and then, as you will
find you will need them, for now the
cracks will not let in light or cold.
You say it looks so rough; well,
never mind, the cattle don't care, but
if you do. go to town and get some
tarred paper and few laihs; but the
paper over the old boards and nail
laths about foot or fifteen inches
apart all over the paper. 1t will keep
the cattle from rubbing it off as they
go in and out. When you are all
done you will be surprised to see how
nice and slick it looks. and if your
barn is underpinned there will be no
shivering colts or frozen manure. II
your barn is not underpinned you can
set up some old planks and band with
earth. II your barn is battened. you
can make it much warmer than it is
now by only putting on the tarred
paper Let each end lap ON the upper
or under side of the girt. as the case
may be. and nail the laths down tight
You will find the paper very cheap.
Now, my farmer friend. do not say
this is too much trouble, as the work
can be done at odd times in cold OF
wet days II you continue to toast
your shins by glowing fire while
your cattle, with bumped backs and
hair on end. SILVER in that old barn
with the wind blowing through. driv-
ing snow all over them, while the mer,
curry goes down twenty degrees below
zero. your howl about hard times will
grow louder and louder, and perad
venture as the genial days of May re-
turn to put an end to the misery Of
which you are the real author (becaus
you can stop it if you willy there may
appear to you, not in dream, but in
dead earnest, procession of walking
skeletons marching slowly but steadily
to the bone-yard to make fertilizer
for your more thrifty neighbors. - Cor
Ohio Farmer .....