The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-02

the perpendicular shaft being 6fty-one
feet in height. Both the sill shafts are
made by boarding up the inside of the
sluddirg, making box eight by twenty
inches. The only trouble in running
this shaft is in getting by the plate.
This fliculty is gotten around by board
ing across, making three sided box
about three feet on a side, in the angle
between the studding and the rafters.
The shaft from the studding opening
into his box below has a shaft on the
rafters opening up through it. This
box is continu us along the plate for
about sixty feet, and receives five shafts
from below, carrying the air to the CEN
ter, where it goes to the cupola, through
three shafts along the rsfters out through
the ct d Of the barn. Spaces between
The studding are graded up and make
two boxes eight by twenty inches until
they reach the plate, and then pass out
ward through lattice. work in The sides
Of the barn. There are altogether in
/ he barn sixte en- of these eight-inch by
tyenty-inch shafts, and the results so
far ave been satisfactory. The barn is
built so tight the trouble will be to keep
il cold enough rather than warm Ell ough.
These shafts act very well, no matter
what the direction of the wind The
bottom of the shaft has three openings
closed by hinged doc! some in the eel
lar, one in the floor of the constable
ard the other just under the ceiling in
the constable, so that we can have the
air from whatever place we desire.
The other point in the construction
of the barn TO which | want TO call at
tention is the way the stock are watered
We use the Buckley Watering Device
and believe it is the first of the kind
used in the state Fastened to the post
on the front of the stanchion. Between
each two cows is cast-iron bucket
holding about ten quarts. These buck
cts are all connected by an iron pipe
with a water tank containing ball
valve, which keeps the water in the
tank at constant level. The water
in the watering-trough remains at the
same level as that in the tank. When
an animal drinks any water it lowers
T The level in the trough and the water
flows into it from the tank, which opens
valve and allows more water to flow
into the tank. Our cows take a great
, deal of comfort, apparently, in the
NdttT. Lucy sip utOiO ONoiy low
minutes all day long, and even when
they do not drink they seem to like to
It OK their noses in and blow the water
around. The trough is so small that il
contains only about one-sixth of what
the two cows will drink up in day, sc
that the water is changed quite often
and has no chance to become stagnant
AL hough this is patent arrangement
and it is distinctly against our princi.
piles to do advertising, yet it is so grea
an advancement on any method Of
, watering stock that has hitherto beer
in use, both as regards the comfort o.
, the stock and the labor of the man who
cares for them, that l hope it will be
come known and used by all dairymen
We also have in the barn ten methods
of siauchionipg cows, aud we would
t extend cordial invitation to any an(
: everybody to cume to Burlington an(
r look us over. w. w. COOKE.
4 We heartily thank Profes or Cook,
: for this sketch of the fine new barn OF
4 the College farm. Let us hope tina
: it will be means of solid instruction
, to thousands of ambitious and ener
getic young farmers.-EDITOR.