There are no flies to make the horses stamp.
Rats have no hiding-place about concrete floors.
No other floor is as slick as a manure-soaked wooden floor. Concrete
floors may be finished as rough or corrugated, as may be desired.
Concrete floors do not soak up water. The liquids run into the gutters
and thence to the manure pits. The floor may be flushed with water and
kept as clean and odorless as a kitchen floor.
All kinds of barn floors must be bedded down. Concrete floors are
warmer and cleaner than any other kind, for they are always dry.
Besides, heat and cold do not easily pass through concrete.
Concrete floors afford good fire protection. No fire can be started on
concrete floors by a shiftless farm “hand” dropping cigarette stubs or
matches on their surface.
Good farm “hands” prefer to work where there are concrete floors: they
lighten the labor. Concrete floors have no uneven edges to catch the
scoop and to ruffle the temper.
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