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woods and stay all the afternoon and come home with me at 

 night. I never had to break her into milking, and any time 

 I went into the pasture where she was with the other cows, 

 I would say "Bonnie, come," and she would always leave 

 the cows and come to me. I kept her until she was eighteen 

 years old. I never caught her doing a wrong thing in my 

 life. She was the only perfect being I ever met in this 

 world. She never kicked over a pail of milk ; she was 

 never sick, and after I had disposed of her I almost wished 

 I had kept her another eighteen years. That is a little in 

 the line of Dr. Twitchell's remarks. 



I would not say exactly as Mr. Sessions does in regard to 

 disposing of a cow if she has a fault. I remember a man 

 in Lowell who wanted to get a perfect horse. Some one 

 said, " You cannot find a perfect man, and a man is a fool if 

 he expects to find a perfect horse." I have one cow in my 

 barn to-day that will jump any fence. I put her in a good 

 pasture and she fed all she wanted to, and then jumped over 

 into a poor pasture. She will jump any wall. I have kept 

 her in the barn two years, and she averages twelve quarts a 

 day. She is worth keeping, if she will jump. 



Another thing, in regard to the cleanliness of the milk and 

 the care of the cattle in the barn. They should be fed reg- 

 ularly and given good air. I have carried milk into the 

 market for nearly twenty j^ears. At one time the milkman 

 complained that the milk soured. I marked the cans, and 

 when he brought back what had soured I found that it had 

 been gone nearly a week. I found I must stop making milk 

 or stop selling it at the door. Now I run it into the Lowell 

 market. I did not buy a milk route. I tried to put up milk 

 that would be satisfactory. We could have three times the 

 route we now have. We always get six cents the year 

 around, while most of the milkmen sell for four and five, 

 and get six only in the winter. It is very important to keep 

 the milk clean. We always wash the cow's udder every 

 time we milk. We put the milk into a large strainer pail 

 with a wire strainer, and run the milk through that and two 

 or three thicknesses of cloth. In that way you will hardly 

 ever find settlings in the milk. 



I feed gluten and wheat shorts, and I think with this food 



