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timothy hay, bran and linseed meal and water, and give the cow as 

 much exercise as you can. Stand back of her and feel her short 

 ribs. No well fed cow will want to walk, but make her walk, and 

 give her the exercise, and I will guarantee you won't have milk fever 

 on the farm. 



DR. TOWER: Mr. Chairman, it is quite customary to think that 

 they must do something besides giving this treatment with air; they 

 think they must give medicine. I have known of two or three cases 

 where the veterinary went away after doing what was necessary, 

 and they went and gave them a lot of medicine. In the case of two 

 cows, they both recovered from milk fever, but they died of pneu- 

 monia afterwards. After you give them the air, let them alone. 

 If you go to pouring medicine down them, it is just as liable to go 

 on to the lungs and cause your cow to die from pneumonia. 



Adjourned to one o'clock P. M. 



Court House, Clearfield, Pa., 

 Afternoon Session, Thursday, May 31, 1906. 



Mr. Glover in the Chair. 



The meeting was called to order at the designated hour. 



The CHAIR: We will now take up the second number on the pro- 

 gram for this morning entitled "Feed, Breed and Care of the Dairy." 

 By Dr. J. D. Detrich, West Chester, Pa. 



DR. DETRICH: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow- 

 Farmers: It is a very great lileasure to me this afternoon to stand 

 here and speak to you on the subject of ''The Feed, Breed and Care 

 of the Dairy," but before saying one word in reference to this sub- 

 ject, it is my delight to present to you at this time the very splendid 

 address that was delivered by the President of the United States 

 yesterday at Hampton, Virginia, and he spoke of the agricultural col- 

 leges, and the work which the agricultural institutes are doing for 

 the farmer, and urged the young men of America, colored men as 

 well as white men, to stick to the farm, and I am happy to be able 

 to present to you this suggestion from the President of the United 

 State's, and such good words for the advancement of agriculture, 

 for we know very well that we do not have the sympathy of every- 

 body in the United States, and sometimes we feel that we are pulled 

 down by the tremendous tide that is trying to draw us away from 

 the scientific side and down to the ordinary method of practicing 

 agriculture in the past. 



Still further, I bring to you the greetings of Mr. Kates — those of 

 you who were present at West Chester last year will remember him 

 well, and he wished me to say to you, that if you would come to see 

 him again, he thought he could offer you some good milk to drink 

 instead of some of the other stuff. 



Dr. Detrich discussed his subject as follows: 



