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make a more pleasing impression upon a prospective buyer. Since so 

 many of the cows are sold for dairy purposes, this is a rather important 

 item in the dairy management. Long and short cows are lined on the 

 gutter by means of a double tie, the usual rope from the horns being 

 fastened to one side of the stall and a trace chain attached to a wood 

 or iron yoke about the cow's neck is brought back and hooked over a 

 staple in the floor back of the stall partition, thus preventing her mov- 

 ing forward. A backward step would put the cow in the gutter, and 



A well-to-do farmer's cow stable in Hollancl. Stalls for cows decorated with plates, 

 copper tea kettles and wood carving. Lace curtains at windows. Edam cheese 

 curing on table at right. This is the way the stable is furnished during summer 

 months while cows are on pastui'e. 



as its bottom is about three feet below the stall floor, one step over the 

 edge is usually sufficient to cause the cow to remember the occurrence 

 and recover herself on the slip edge that jn-otrudes some four inches a 

 little way below the platform on which she stands. This ledge is also 

 used to support the portable approach used to span the gutter while 

 placing the cows in the stalls. 



CITY MILK SUPPLY. 



The greater part of the milk consumed in the large cities of Hol- 

 land is distributed through central supply houses or milk depots. A 



