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separately for a term of ten days. Whoever has had 

 a chance to experience the trouble which epidemic 

 abortion gives, its pugnacity and infections character, 

 will never advocate the building of a mammoth barn. 

 Besides which, the limited number of cows mentioned 

 above is just the number to be well cared for by one 

 man, and I have ever found that attendants will work 

 better and give more care when they know that the 

 responsibility for any neglect cannot be loaded onto 

 " the other fellow." A good man will be proud of 

 the good looks and thrift of his animals, because he 

 knows that the credit for it is earned by himself alone. 

 All over the Old Continent the Swiss are renowned as 

 being the best milkers and attendants on cattle. 

 From my own experience, and from the testimony of 

 hundreds that employ them, it is a well merited re- 

 nown, so much so that in several countries any at- 

 tendant on milk cows is termed a " Swiss." 



Finally, the question may arise how is the dairy- 

 man, who intends taking in hand this branch of busi- 

 ness, to insure himself and his undertaking in these 

 times of hand to hand fight in competition against 

 the multitude of those who, though too indolent or 

 too careful to risk any capital in a new and untried 

 industry at the start, yet fall upon it as on a legiti- 

 mate prey as soon as they see their neighbor making 

 a success of it. Unrestrained competition will, in all 

 instances, tend to lower the standard of efficiency 

 and merit in any product of general consumption, 

 the quality of which cannot be judged by the outer 



