The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-28


| to grow.
Sunshine is better destroyer o,
germs and bacteria than any CONNER
cial d1sinfectant. In planning the
barn, the architect should provide TO,
window space amounting to six square
feet per COW. The dairy barn will be
warm enough providing too much all
space is not allowed for each cow and
providing that 1t is possible to close
the doors and do away with the Gus
tomary wide cracks that are to be
found so often in barns of the west al
the present time. If the barn is kept
as warm as 1t should be thorough
ventilation is necessary.
Milk Should Be Clean.
When we call to mind the
fact that milk is produced for the DUR.
pose OF human consumption, we are
impressed with the fact that it should
be produced by sanitary methods and
always kept scrupulously clean and
free from dirt and dust particles
which are so frequently permitted to
gain access to the milk. If the barn
Is properly constructed this is not a
difficult matter. The interior of the
dairy barn should be as simple as
possible and one of the secrets of pro.
viding the proper interior of a dairy
barn is to have 1t as free from fix.
lures which will gather dirt and dust
and, In consequence, germs and bac.
terla, as possible. All floor surfaces
should be of cement because this is
not only the most sanitary construc-
ton but In the long run 1t is the
cheapest construction as 1t costs little
more than wood to begin with and
lasts for lifetime. The stalls and
partitions should all be made of iron
gas pipe, comparatively inexpensive
to begin with and, like the cement.
cnce installed it remains for a life
time, and even though the outside of
the barn were to burn down the floor.
stalls and stanchions would remain
intact. This construction admits very
little accumulation of dirt and dust
and is very easily kept clean. In fact.
IN most sanitary barns that are con.
structed in this manner it is Gus.
tomary at intervals and in many in
stances every day to scrub the barn
from one end to the other. Every por-
ton OF the barn should be set off by
itself and especially should the cows
be kept in their particular portion and
all odor kept away.
Poor Butter.
1t is fact that the butter produced
IN the west is poorer in quality than
the butter that was produced Is or 20
years ago, and) this is due largely to
the TACT that the milk is not cared for
IN the same manner that the butter
MAKER IN the creamery in the past
cared for the milk before separating
1t. BY keeping the separator clean
and by cooling down the cream or the
milk as the case may be, and keeping
1t cool, it is possible to make even
better butter today than ever before
because buttermakers as a rule are
more efficient and skillful in their on.
than in the past.
e0i VI CooI lS always to be
considered as an essential point in the
construction of any of our farm build.
lngs, but the question is ever preva-
lent whether or not the barn built
with the least cost is in the long rim :
the least expensive. 1t is true that
the best barn that can possibly be
quilt should be built at the least cost
ana by the use Of cement iron gas |
pipes for stalls, partitions and stanch. |
ions, and by the use of the most
economical material for the frane
"ofK and construction. will provide
barn which with time considered will !
De not only the least expensive hut
also the most healthful for the cows |
and conducive to the production of tho |
most sanitary, the purest and the most
profitable milk. This is because -
will be as easy to produce sanitary
milk as that which is unsanitary. and
II VIII be produced cheaper because
Ihe COWS will be in more healthy
condition, and warm, we'll ventilated
barn will be conducive to the greatest
possible flow of milk for the least
of feed given.
Clean Barn Lots.
Not only should the barn be wei, az.
ranged but the lots are of equal i'm.
portance. The barn, by all means
should be built on one of the hiehest
points of the farm so that all moisture
Will drain In all directions and keep
The barn lots as we'll as the interior %
the barn free from standing mud and
water at all times. There Is very sol.
dom farm SO arranged that there ara
enough lots to divide the stock up in
manner in which they should be ii.
vided, and too often do we find cows
calves, heifers, pigs. etc, all running
together in one lot, and such an ar.
rangement is always the cause of more
or less loss due to one cause and an.
other. Lots should be provided for
COWS and heifers of different ages. for
the calves. the bulls. for dry cows. etc.