The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-15

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whole family. In form they resemble
will give the general type. On the
ground. so feet wide and 1876 feet
long; outside wall of brick, 614 feet
high; an inside structure of large
poles similar to our telegraph poles
supports very steep roof, the ridge
of which is forty or fifty feet from
the floor; in the rear is modern
structure about 20 feet wide and 35
feet long, in which are narrow hall,
a family sitting room and parlor. The
kitchen is in the main building,
door opening from it into the COW
stable, which is about 16 feet wide
and runs one side of the great struc-
ture it's full length. 1t accommodates
thirty-six COWS in stalls, two in stall,
a window in each stall fronting the
cows Here they are fed and watered
during the whole winter without leav
ing their stalls. They have no exer-
else save what they get in the stalls.
"This stable seems to be comfort
ably warmed by the heat that ema-
mates from the COWS, but do they have
sufficient change of air? About eight
feet above the stable is a loose COW
ering of boards on which there is a
layer of loose straw. Evidently to a
certain extent the heated air from
the bodies of the COWS passes up
through this covering into the great
roof space and thence to the outside
by ventilators in the ridge of the roof.
Fresh air is supplied from the great
barn space below, through doors and
perhaps more or less crevices in the
partition that separates the stable
from this space.
"The third thing we note are the
necessities of these farmers. AS a
class they are tenants, and have to
pay an annual rent to their landlords
of from $40 to 500 an acre on their
holdings. Their COWS must be rent
payers They cannot afford to keep
a sing elcow at loss, as our farmers
sometimes do. In their system OF
management the COWS must be made
profitable, both in the products of
milk and the products of flesh. When
| was a young man | worked for a
dairy farmer who held that some
dairy COWS could be profitably fatted
for beef and others could not be thus
ence lay in the fact that the one class
profitably fatted, and that the differ
deposited fat largely around the kid
neys and on the intestines, the other
largely on the ribs and in the inter
stices of the muscles. | do not know
that this theory is correct, but l ven
ture it as a hypothesis to explain the
success of these Friesian dairymen.
Lastly, a few minor features are
worthy of note. Among these are the
bull shows held in the springtime in
almost every village and the cow mar
kets held weekly or bi-weekly in the
principal towns and villages. Both
are fostered by the local govern
ments. The former are designed to
educate the farmers in the best types
of bulls and to enable them to select
and purchase such as are suitable for
their herds. There is no display about
these shows and no holiday excite
ment. They are for business. The
same may be said of the COW markets,
yet l doubt if finer display of cows
has ever been seen at any of our
worlds fairs than are shown every
week at some of the market places.
In order to give correct impression
of the influence of these markets on
the development of the breed | will
describe the one at Leuwarden, the