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best of food ; the purest of air, no matter how cold, 

 and natural exercise in the open fields, day and 

 night, winter and summer ', or, if they must be shut 

 up, that they should only be protected from wind and 

 wet j but not from one ray of light or one degree of 

 cold. Animals kept in this way never catch a cold, 

 if they are well fed j and therefore never have any 

 of these internal diseases, for a cold is the beginning- 

 of them all. I have been told that the greatest suf- 

 ferer in Cheshire has been a nobleman whose cow- 

 houses were celebrated for their perfection j and this 

 is just what I should have expected. I have all 

 along- called the disease " cow-house typhus," corres- 

 ponding- to jail fever among-st men. No doubt it may 

 also in innumerable cases be called <e famine typhus ;" 

 but that only means that as among-st men so among-st 

 cattle, impure air, crowding 1 together and insufficient 

 food will, any one of them, cause typhus diseases. 



I said in the pamphlet I published that I doubted 

 whether the Commissioners who gave us such long- 

 reports knew much about the habits of animals, or 

 even such a simple fact as their never, unless forced, 

 g-oing- under cover for shelter from any weather 

 whatever, thoug'h they will do so to escape flies in 

 the heat of summer. 



I have six Alderney cows, the most tender of all 

 kinds. Ever since last November they have been 

 out in a field day and nig-ht. It is now the end of 

 May. During* all this time they have been in 

 perfect condition, and giving- as much milk as ever. 



