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improvement in the management of cattle particularly in regard to housing 

 and hygiene generally. Every improvement, however, must entail extra 

 expense and it will be many years before it can be shown practically that 

 the advantages to be gained are worth the expense entailed. As 

 cattle get more valuable more care will be bestowed upon them and 

 better and more careful management will gradually be adopted. lu the 

 meantime the best that can be done is to spread knowledge by means of 

 ocular demonstration. The stables and veterinary hospitals that are being 

 buiU and equipped by Government and local bodies are excellent object 

 lessons in this respect and it behoves the leading agriculturists to copy 

 them as far as possible. Dairies properly built and equipped at convenient 

 centres would be even more valuable. The knowledge spread by books 

 and pamphlets cannot be compared to object lessons of this kind and any 

 money spent on buildings and demonstrations connected with the up- 

 keep and management of animals is well worth the expenditure. The 

 cavalry sowar who has learnt the elements of stable management is an 

 educational factor already. 



It is to be hoped that the veterinary and agricultural graduates who 

 are now being scattered over the country will serve a useful purpose in 

 instilling the principles of the good management of animals in those with 

 whom they come in contact. 



III.-OTHER ANIMALS. 



21. Atone time the prosperity of the Punjab agriculturist was 

 judged to a great extent by the number of cow 

 buffaloes in his possession. This applied more 



faithfully when the produce of the buffalo was for home consumption. But 

 the contraction of grazing in districts like Amritsar has led to buffaloes 

 being kept instead of cows as it pays better to stall-feed a buffalo than a 

 cow. Owing to the great demand for ghi many men keep one cow 

 buffalo where they formerly kept two cows. The idea obtains that the 

 cultivation bullocks will be purchased with the money earned by the sale 

 of the ghi from the buffalo. This scheme worked until the rise in price 



