VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 101 



Gov. Hoard. Yes, and with plenty of windows. These 

 dark, damp stables you have in New York and Vermont, with 

 only one window where there should be five, stables without 

 ventilation, and men going- along - as unconcerned about it as 

 though there was no God in Israel! I don't wonder Christ 

 stood upon the mountain and said: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 

 how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen doth gather her 

 chickens under her wing, and ye would not." Do you know 

 the progress and knowledge along these lines seems to me some 

 times to be almost sublimely small and yet I can see progress. 



A Member — Is this a patented system? 



Answer. No sir. 



Question. What are the pipes? 



Answer. Galvanized iron according to the cubic capacity 

 needed. 



Question. Por ten cows? 



Answer. Ten cows ought to have 8,000 cubic feet of air. 



Question. Has Prof. King published this system? 



Answer. Yes. 



Gov. Hoard. I want to give you an illustration Prof. King 

 gave us at our last Dairyman's Convention. Go home and 

 take one of your wife's two quart fruit jars, take a piece of 

 lighted candle and set it into that fruit jar, then take a piece 

 of rubber pipe and set it down beside the candle. Breathe 

 two breaths into the fruit jar and see the candle go out. Just 

 think of it, with two breaths of } T our lungs you have used up 

 the oxygen. If you want to see the effect further, raise the 

 candle up a little and breathe in and see it go out and see the 

 jar gradually fill up with carbonic acid gas, until you get the 

 jar full of foul air which is so heavy it will not pass out. 

 Think of this stable with its ten or twenty cows breathing 

 that foul air; and then you ask them to do good healthy work, 

 while you deny them the chance, when with but little expense 

 you could give them a chance. If you can change it this win- 

 ter do it at once, for the cows sake, for your own sake and for 

 your Maker's sake. I appeal for the Maker, as well as for the 

 cow, for a man who has a reverent idea of his Maker, should 

 carry it with him when he deals with His creatures. Put 

 this kind of ventilation and just as much sunlight into the 

 stable as you can. I am getting my plans completed and I 

 will have as many windows in my new barn as possible. 



Question. Do the cows face the windows? 



Answer. Yes, they face the outside. 



Question. Will the sun shine on them? 



Answer. Part of the day. 



Question. Is it good for them to have the sun shine into 

 their faces? 



