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"farmer," had reached home. He was a very pleasant German and 

 showed us the feed which they called "malt grains and other stuff." 

 There was a large hogshead standing under the before described 

 cow-shed, just in front of the door of the stable which w r as about 

 two-thirds full of malt grains and other material, so sour and 

 stinking that one could not look into it without getting sick. On 

 asking the old man "if the cows liked that kind of food," he said, 

 "sometimes they acted as if they did not and it made them cough 

 sometimes. 



We inquired as to how much milk they got from the cows, and 

 he said they got one hundred and twenty quarts from the thirteen, 

 but now they got about sixty-five from the six. "We asked, " how 

 much do you get from the sick cow at a milking ?" He said " about 

 & pint, and that they fed to the hogs. 



" How many hogs have you ?" 



"We have but five now, two di^d last fall." 



"What was the matter of the hogs that died?" 



"They got sick just like the cows, the five are pretty well now." 



Now let us look at this matter clearly, in the light of reason and 

 science and what do we find ? Brutes suffering. Human igno- 

 rance. Legalized cruelty to dumb animals. Woful want of in- 

 telligent investigation, wilful disregard of the very first principles 

 of hygiene. 



It hardly seems possible that any one with the slightest degree of 

 intelligence could make any mistake as to where the primary cause 

 of all this sickness laid. Here was a depression or hole made in 

 the ground that caught all the surface drainage for say two hun- 

 dred feet around it. All the wash-water from the houses drained 

 into it, all the filth from the stable and pig-pen drained into it, 

 every rain washed through the hen-house into it. There was ab- 

 eolutelv no exit for the water. There it was, dammed up, with all 



