VAN PELT'S COW DEMONSTRATION 



"Princess Carlotta produced proteids sufficient for more 

 than three steers ; nearly fat enough for two ; ash enough to 

 build the skeleton for three, and, in addition, produced 920 

 pounds of milk sugar worth as much per pound for food as 

 ordinary sugar. 



''These figures show the remarkable efficiency of the 

 cow as a producer of human food. It is because of this 

 economical use of food that the dairy cow, and not the steer, 

 is kept on high-priced lands. When land is cheap and feed 

 abundant the meat-producing animals predominate, but when 

 the land becomes high in value and feed expensive the farmer 

 turns to the dairy cow." 



Continual Production Demands Vitality 



To accomplish such enormous results and to continue 

 year after year for 10 or 15 years, which represents the work- 

 ing lifetime of a good cow, necessitates that she have a most 

 rugged constitution and much vitality. 



But great production is not the only tax upon the con- 

 stitution that is required to keep her in working condition 

 throughout a busy lifetime. Nearly half of the time, if she 

 lives north of the 40th degree of latitude, she is stabled, and 

 in the majority of cases her home is far from being a healthful 

 place. Oftentimes her stall is in the basement of a barn 

 that years ago was built for other purposes, and invariably 

 her quarters are devoid of windows, rendering them dark, 

 damp and poorly ventilated. From one year to the other no 

 sunlight penetrates the air in which she is. compelled to exist 

 during the winter. 



Germ life flourishes. Only the cows with the greatest 

 constitutions are able to resist the germs of tuberculosis, 

 contagious abortion, pneumonia, garget and other diseases 

 with which dairy herds suffer. 



Large and Small Cows Equally Susceptible 



Very often the dairyman discriminates against one breed 

 or another because he believes that particular breed to be 

 more susceptible to tuberculosis than others. His belief is 

 based largely upon the fact that the breed in question is 

 small in size. Nothing could be farther from logic, for, were 

 it true that large cows had greater constitutions than small 

 ones, then it would be likewise true that larger men are 

 stronger in constitution than small men. It makes little 

 difference how large a cow is, if she be housed in a dark, 

 damp, poorly ventilated barn where the sun never enters 

 she is just as liable to become diseased as is a small cow, for 

 the disease germs are without, doubt present in great num- 



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