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even within the very precincts of a city. It is requisite, for these 

 conditions, that provision should be made to allow the animal to 

 breathe fresh air, and to enjoy a certain amount of sunlight daily. 

 Without these none should be kept. Exercise is not essential to 

 the well-being of the milch cow ; she is an animal of repose, and 

 if she is offered every effort to ruminate, will be perfectly eon- 

 , tented, and will do her duty. Attention to the best possible con- 

 dition of the skin, as regards cleanliness, is very important when. 

 so closely housed. 



The food which, under these circumstances, must be purchased, 

 can be obtained with much economy, on account of the propin- 

 quity to the places of sale ; and although we do not advocate the 

 use of brewers' grain, or of any other cheap articles which are too 

 often substituted for the natural food of the cow, viz., grass, 

 green or dry a small quantity, especially when supplemented by 

 the vegetable refuse from the house table, may be advantageously 

 employed conjointly with good hay. 



Finally, it may be said that no animal better repays care and 

 attention, and can with more truth be called the poor man's friend, 

 than the cow. 



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