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can be sold without loss — which is not the case with cow3 

 not spayed, and when pleiiro-pneumonia is among them. 



4. Spayed cows give the same quantity and quality of 

 milk all the year round, if they are properly fed and cared 

 for. 



5. Ten spayed cows will give the year round as much 

 milk as double the number of cows not spayed, thus saving 

 the interest on the outlay for ten cows, together with the 

 absence of risk from loss of some of the principal by death 

 of one or more from sickness, or accident, not to speak of 

 the feed of ten cows. Between the feed of ten cows and 

 their manure, the farmer can best estimate the difference 

 in value. 



6. With spayed cows there is no risk to run from milk 

 fever, nor trouble with cows called bullers. 



7. To fatten a cow, spay her instead of giving her the 

 bull, as is the present custom — by which feed and time are 

 consumed, and the animal is not made very fat after all, 

 for she has to provide the fattening substance to»the calf 

 in the womb, which, if she had been spayed, would have 

 been appropriated to herself; nor is this all, for the calf 

 in the belly of the cow is at once discounted by the butcher, 

 as it is not a saleable article in marked. 



8. Spayed cows cannot abort or slink their ciilves. 

 Having thus had a bird's eye view of the advantages to 



be derived from spayed cows, let us look in the same 

 manner at the disadvantages of spayed on^^s. 



1. The expense of the operation and attendant risk of 

 the animal dying — although this is not great, (about one in 

 the hundred.) The expense of the operation will be from 

 three to five dollars, which will depend upon the distance 

 the operator has to travel, and how many animals 9 re to ba 

 operated upon. 



