Excerpt from Report of Fourth Annual Meeting: January 23, 1929, Harrisburg, Pa If possible, when building a new barn or rearranging an old one, have the stock all housed in one barn with the cows in one end and the horses in the other. There is a big saving both in building costs and in labor in caring for the stock. It was found that where the horses are in the same barn with the cows, the distance traveled per horse per day was reduced 200 feet and the time saved was 8 minutes per horse. This time is worth as much as the total charge to horses for the use of the building. The summary of the advice that I would give to the average dairyman on barn planning would be: Face the cows out with a driveway between them the full length of the barn. Locate the milk house at one end or side of the stable as near the cows as possible. Locate the Silo at the side of the feeding alley and use a feed cart. Place the hay chutes at the side of the barn and between each two mows. Have them large enough so that when filled, there is sufficient hay for one day. Construct a ladder in the chute. Locate the granary above the stable with a spout to the basement in the feeding alley. Place the stairway, the forks and shovels near that center of operation where a farmer most often finds himself when he stops to think and plan his work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.