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carried more hair, more health; and three weeks ago I had 

 the first tuberculin test without a reaction. 1 l)elieve in air. I 

 have a little bov in niv house whose mother, iirandmother and 



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uncles died of tuberculosis. I am takino: care of him. I go in 

 every night, the window is opened and 1 })ut on an extra cover- 

 let; and I am in hopes that with plenty of fresh air and out 

 of door living he will grow up. I believe we can have our barns 

 judiciously handled so that we can keep them colder than we 

 do and have a room ventilated for the cows to be in that will be 

 as comfortable for them as a better-ventilated room would have 

 been for us to have held our session in to-dav. 



Chairman Smith : In 19U0 we were so unfortunate as to scet 

 tuberculosis in our herd. We put in practice the Bang method and 

 from those animals raised a herd that was sound. We killed the 

 last of the old animals in 1905 Since that time we have not had 

 one single case of tuberculosis, and we have not had it because 

 we keej) those cows comfortable; we tiw to maintain a tempera- 

 ture in that room, which is thoroughlv well lighted, of about 45 

 or 55 degrees; and the King system provides a change of air, and 

 still keeps the temperature high enough so there is no moisture. 

 If you get the temperature too low you will have moisture ; and 

 I believe moisture is one of the dangerous things you want to 

 avoid. So long as you can keep the air dry you are all right, but 

 when you get it so cold that the breath of the animals will make 

 moisture, then you are furnishing proper conditions fen- your 

 animals. Dry, cool air, plenty of light and changing the air often 

 is what means health for your animals; and it means, as Mr. 

 Dana savs, that vour milk will not chance materiallv, because 

 the animals are healthy, are all right and can stand those changes. 



Mu. Ayres : Mr. Lillie referred to the King system. In some 

 places it does not work satisfactorily. I was in a barn in Wash- 

 ington county last winter that cost nearly $5,000; it was eiiuipped 

 with steel stanchions, concrete floor and mangers, the Iving system, 

 etc. The moisture was excessive. The barn had been in use two 

 months and ali'cady mold Imd appcareth V.'as tluit dnc to faulty 

 construction or location ( In some cases I Iuin'c hcai'd that location 

 such as a hillside is not desirable. And I would like to ask Mr. 

 Lillie also about the use of muslin windows. 



