STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION". 



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that I am a doctor, and I might speak a little more clearly from that stand- 

 point, but I will say that I am also a dairyman. I have received a great 

 deal of benefit from what the doctor has said. I have seen the ill-effects 

 of not conforming to what the doctor has said. I know what it was 

 twenty-five years ago. I practiced medicine twenty-three years in Indian- 

 apolis before I went into special work, and the horror, the perfect horror 

 that we physicians would have when the hot weather would come. For- 

 merly one-fifth of the human family died in infancy, and the doctor knows 

 very well that summer complaint, not spring complaint or fall complaint 

 or winter complaint, but summer complaint, heads the list. It was a ter- 

 rible thing to see these little things go in the way they did. 



I want to call attention to one thing, and that is the shed the doctor 

 has shown. I keep, to some extent, a shed as you have seen. I vary to 

 some extent in that I do not keep my cattle in the shed all the year. That 

 is the only objection we could have to the shed where the cattle were kept 

 all the year. I can't help but believe that when the weather is fit, six 

 months of the year, and possibly seven or eight months, cattle do well to 

 have a good deal of outdoor exposure, or the kind of exercise that cattle 

 take. Milk cows do not take exercise only sufficient to get their rations. 

 You feed cows all they want, and they will travel but little. They will 

 eat, lie down and take the world easy until they want their food, and so 

 dairy cattle do not want the same amount of exeKcise as other animals. 

 I do not have the cattle in the milking room only during the time of milk- 

 ing. They know Avhat is on hand at the milking time, and every cow is 

 at her place and is milked and treated kindly. That is a thing I have been 

 impressed with more of late than ever before. Usually we take the calf 

 away from the cow at once, and her maternal instincts are not expended 

 on her calf. The milker should take the calf's place, and if she is treated 

 kindly, and that milker is a humane person, that cow will have a very 

 great affection for that milker. 



Mr. Woods: I would like to ask the doctor if he thinks that tubercu- 

 losis can be communicated to the human family from the bovine? 



Dr. Bitting: I think it can to a certain extent. 



Mr. Woods: I would like to ask the gentleman, in taking the calf from 

 the mother, did he give the milk of the mother to the calf? I always con- 

 sidered it very necessary for the calf to have that milk. 



Dr. Woolen: The first twenty-four hours, and then we feed skim milk. 

 The skim milk is always warmed to what we would almost call hot. Milk, 

 as Dr. Bitting knows very well, comes from the animal at almost blood 

 temperature, and I heat the milk to about that temperature. 



