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are carefully curried and their tails suspended by a string from the 

 ceiling, so that while the animal has free use of its tail, it can never get 

 into the gutter to be fouled. Scarcely an hour pa,sses, day or night, that 

 the cows are not visited by an attendant. They are watered, fed and 

 milked Avith the greatest regularity, and given eveiy comfort possible. 



r.Iaikit clay in Leeuwarden, Holland. A boat being loaded witli cows. 



Caring for the cows, gathering food for them, and the manufacture 

 r.nd sale of the product occupies the attention of the Hollander to a de- 

 gree difficult to midertand luiless one has paid them a visit. Holland 

 is often called the cow's paradise, and it well deserves the name. 



HOLLAND cow STABLES. 



. It is not easy for a stranger to gain access to a Holland home, but 

 it wa.s our good fortune on both visits to Holland, in company with in- 



Typical Holland farm home. 



