IMPROVMENT IN COW-SHEDS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1020, 9 January 1911, Page 8

IMPROVMENT IN COW-SHEDS.

; CLEANLINESS TpitJMPHAIjT. AYe have made a good deal of improvement iii New Zealand in the last ie>v years iii the matter of tho cleanliness of cow-sheds, but whilo there is plenty of room for general improvement," (hero .is also a distance to go before the high state reached bj; -some Unitod States dairymen is attained. , 111 ail American agricultural journal just to hand anoears a reproduction of a photograph,showing-, an. elaborate luncheon 'spread;' , in;'!!a .'!. < afn.. Tho guests were , people' who .are commonly known as "society''.women," .•numbering ■ 210, from' clnljs'in . Chicago; and' Elgin. The ham luncheon-was given at the Gulick Dairy. Farm,' near Elgin, in tho State of Illinois.

' So, much has been stated about barns I being so • clean that they were fit to •eat in, . that this illustration of the truth of. the statement is worthy of some elaboration. ,- "It-, might;-safely be called l-'it i'ipmcV. milk ,tfiuippli.:v'(sayn' en American contemtiorary),'-'for-what. milk coiild be otherwise than nitre produced from a dairy farm where" the uarns were in such an attractive state? . . . On the morning of the (lay on which the luncheon took place forty cows wej'e fed and milked in this same stable in just ,ftho.jSame, vi same time one might seo -anv day lie chooses to go "to the barn'.'"Think of what this means! A dairy barn that;had in no manner beeiKtent'. apart, . from .ordinary purposes,' used ' as a most attractive place for some of the brainiest and most cultured women in Illinois'. It was . .. . a demonstration of, the advanced stae;o at which modern dnirym? has aTnvcd. • "In its preparation tho barn had been 1 cleaned in tho. same fashion as occurs every iiiornin«r- When • this was accoro- , plished tho effort to make it ntractivo to humanity was begun. • This consisted in carpeting the barn floor with freshly cut. alfalfa, .-with filling the feed bins with corn -cut .and hauled from one ofthe farm fields, with decorating t.hc 'sDaces, "about,\the .'stanchions, and some of "the stanchions themselves with bundles of corn, while hj* ™rs of corn dangled from the tpp* of tliQ tall bundle > here and • there'. ■ It stated that there are other barns in tho locality which are quite n- clean, ?nd it is nrophesied thnt this avill pot be , the last* luncheon of tho kind.