DAIRY MEEITING. I7I 



some back woods pasture, where there is insufficient pasturage, 

 and while they manage to exist and even grow some, they fre- 

 quently do not get vitalizing food enough to grow them, and at 

 the same time develop a foetus and the result is they abort from 

 weakness of the reproductive organs; or if they carry their 

 calves full time and give birth to them, there is either an udder 

 with no milk or the heifer's vitality is injured, her growth 

 stunted and she becomes a weakling ever after, not from early 

 breeding but from the lack of nourishment sufficient for her 

 own growth, the growth of an offspring and of an udder to 

 furnish nourishment for that offspring after it is born. It is 

 a study of the whole animal and not a study of one part of it 

 which is the universal need of the dairyman from one ocean to 

 the other, and a study of feeds that will make for us a stronger 

 machine to call upon for work. When this is more extensively 

 done, there will be far less abortion than now, far less call for 

 state enactments to send out veterinaries armed with a bottle 

 of tuberculin, a hypodermic syringe and a thermometer than 

 there is today. Study healthy growth of your dairies; study 

 the laws which maintain health and let disease problems be 

 solved by the veterinary. When you get proficient in your line 

 of study, the veterinary will not have much to do. 



Ones. I have two heifers that came in this fall and both 

 calves died with the scours within 36 hours. Can you tell me 

 the cause and remedy? 



Ans. I would have to know about the heifers individually. 

 These heifers might not have had nourishing food enough to 

 support two lives, to maintain their own growth and at the same 

 time develop their offsprings. It may be from lack of nourish- 

 ing food. I fully agree with everything that Prof. Woods has 

 said, I fully agree with all that the scientists are doing; but I 

 tell you we cannot find in any combination of concentrated foods 

 what we can get in the foods that we raise on our own farms, 

 I am crank enough to say that in every ration of cottonseed 

 meal we need a few oats. If oats are worth $40 a ton to feed 

 to horses, that cow on your farm that is expected to give birth 

 to a calf should have a quart of oats. As far as protein is con- 

 cerned it is an expensive food, but there is a little element con- 

 tained in it which the chemist knew nothing about five years 



