DAIRY MEETING. I4I 



palatable daily ration for my cows, carrying two to two and one- 

 half pounds of protein, and be most economical? As a rule he 

 will find that he will get more for his money in those foods car- 

 rying twenty-five per cent of protein and above. Another thing 

 he will find is, that a combination of three or four grains will 

 give better results than the same amount of digestible food in one 

 or two. You may think the old cow is rather notional but you 

 will find that it pays to conform your methods to her notions. 

 You can get a good deal more in the way of concessions from a 

 well-fed man than you can from a cross, dyspeptic one. The 

 same thing applies to the old cow ; make her comfortable, 

 give her plenty of good food and if she has the ability she will 

 pay you in the milk pail. 



To sum up the whole matter, the man that succeeds in dairy- 

 ing at the present time, must know that his machine, the cow, 

 is a good one ; that she has the ability to take good raw material 

 and give satisfactory returns for it, when it is given to her in 

 sufficient quantities ; that a good cow with poor and insufficient 

 raw material cannot make satisfactory returns, and that a poor 

 cow is not a paying investment under any method of treatment. 



THE COW AXD SOME OF HER IMPORTANT 



DISEASES. 



By Dr. C. D. Smead, Logan, N. Y. 



My effort this morning, for about twenty-five or thirty min- 

 utes, will not be to make veterinarians out of you. Brother Farm- 

 ers, but to try to make what we call respectable cow doctors, — 

 that is, in regard to some of the ailments that are affecting your 

 herds to the greatest extent. The diseases that exist among 

 bovine animals today, especially among cows, are those that are 

 the most readily preventable, and I might almost say, readily 

 curable, by the farmer himself, if he will devote a little attention 

 to them. In the first place, I will call your attention to the cow 

 herself. The best physicians are those that understand not only 

 anatomy, physiology and therapeutics, but human nature as well. 

 A physician may have all the knowledge necessary to make a 

 successful practitioner and if he does not understand human 

 nature he is a failure. And that is just the case with the whole 



