MILKING-SHED AND YARD

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1680, 11 May 1904, Page 66

MILKING-SHED AND YARD

Our .sketches of a .milking relied and country. The large yard is paved with •yard .torn the “Agricultural Journal: 9in cubes, .and ample .arrangements are rdf lyiritoria’f) : sliow bhose:in use :on the: made for getting rid .of surplus wet, fairmbf Mr G. Armstrong, Ondit Badge. j| either in rainy They-wilh.be ,of much .-assistance to those ing the yai’d. The expense of this woik

who are laying out similar dairy arrangements on their own farms. Every arrangement has been made for carrying on the business of dairying conveniently

may be objected to by some, but when ii is properly done, it is done for well on for half a centuiry. The comfort to the cattle and the cleanliness resulting are

and in a cleanly manner. The comfort of dairying with such adds can be appreciated only by those who have had to work -in a boggy yard pude'r the system that Obtained over a-qiuarter of a oantruiry ago in the wetter portions of the

great factors in the success of dairyfarming. Tlie plan can be modified to suit a dairy herd of any number. The sketch of the milking-shed shows how* it is built, with the bails on each side of the central building.