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was quite a student along these lines, and I consulted her a 

 good deal. She was a mother, and I could question her con- 

 cerning the mother that I could not question. I said: "My 

 dear, why do you reget having this chill so much, what are 

 your reasons? " She said, "It means so much less for the 

 baby/' I said: "Less for the baby?" "Yes." "Well, what 

 will you do now to restore this shrinkage?' "Why!" she 

 says, "You ought to know what I will do, when I get home I 

 will try to get warm, will take warm drinks." "This taking 

 warm drink will incease the flow, increase the milk for the 

 baby?" " Why of course, any woman knows that." I came 

 home and I went into my stable and I went to experimenting 

 with my cow. I turned her out in the cold, I noted her shrink- 

 age, and I commenced to give warm water and I noticed that 

 as the cold shrank the flow of milk, warm water helped her 

 back again. 



I published to the world, I think, about the first, my exper- 

 iment of warming water for the cow, and I thought I was an 

 almighty smart man, but when I came to look it over, there 

 was not an old woman in the country who had not known 

 about this thing for hundreds of years. Now my observation 

 in this particular is this: Let every man walk with uncovered 

 head in this pathway of nature and let him remember that 

 this great function of motherhood is one that is found in all 

 the animal creation, and let him above everything else con- 

 sult his wife, and let her motherly judgement and sense of 

 cleanliness determine his action very much in his management 

 of the bovine mother. 



W. H. Gray. We put in a steam boiler in our house cellar 

 over ten years ago for the purpose of warming the water for 

 our cows. We got the apparatus in operation about the first 

 of January, and warmed the water for our cows to about sixty 

 degrees. We supposed we were doing a fine thing. In March 

 we could not get steam through to the barn and we had to 

 water our cattle with the water that came from the spring, 

 which probably was as cold at that time as at any time. We 

 make our butter and salt it by weight, every churning was 

 weighed and salted. We found that shifting from this warm 

 water directly to the cold did not influence the product of but- 

 ter one particle as we could detect by scales. We concluded 

 that if we didn't get any more butter it didn't pay to warm 

 the water and we stopped then and there. 



Gov. Hoard. I don't think it pays any man to warm water 

 for his cows if he has a stable that is warm enough so the 

 cows drink without discomfort, but if the cows go out of doors 

 and get chilled, or drink from an ice cold brook, any man who 



