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Second, we have it so plenty and convenient that the cow need not 

 expend undue eneigy to secure her daily feed. Third, we have a 

 balanced ration. Fourth, the cow need not consult us as to when 

 and how much she shall drink. Fifth, the cow is perfectly comfort- 

 able. Just at this time nature brings about these ideal conditions, 

 but they are very short lived. Nature study occupies considerable 

 of our attention just now, and I want to say to my fellow dairymen 

 that nature will teach us very much more if we only become her pu- 

 pils; then it teaches our city boys who race over our fields and 

 meadows in quest of butterflies, bugs and caterpillars. All we need 

 to do is as nature teaches us in the fore part of the month of June. 

 Put that cow into June conditions the whole year. 



Do not say it cannot be done, because it can, my friends. If we 

 will only use the brains the good Lord has given us with some pur- 

 pose. We can give that cow good, succulent feed the year through. 

 We can always place it so she need not exert herself more than she 

 must in yonder lot where clover is very abundant. We can, all of 

 us, with the greatest ease calculate a balanced ration and compound 

 it from our available feeds. We can easily have an abundant supply 

 of the best water convenient. We can make our cow perfectly com- 

 fortable. ' 



These are the conditions and they can be supplied on almost every 

 farm, and by any farmer who is a lover of the dairy cow. 



