THE NEW EARTH 



The wide diversity in interests in animal 

 husbandry will soon become clear to any one 

 who attempts a study of the subject. The 

 work of the practical scientists has advanced 

 upon so many lines, in the development of the 

 industry that volumes would be required to 

 describe them all. Simply for illustration, 

 what, it may be asked, would a farmer of the 

 Old Earth have thought had he learned that 

 some public institution of the state had de- 

 voted time and money to the investigation of 

 the subject of protecting cows from flies, and 

 had followed up this investigation with an 

 additional expenditure of money to put the 

 results of the investigation in print and issue 

 it broadcast over the state? Yet out of this 

 subject the Storrs Connecticut Station has 

 developed some thoroughly practical material. 

 In states where vicious flies are abundant, it 

 had been believed that there was a faUing ojff 

 in milk during the "fly season," due to the 

 worrying of the cows by the pests. Some one 

 started the manufacture of fly preventives, and 

 a long list of sure-cures followed, The college 

 herd was divided into two sections, which 

 were alternately treated with one of the fly- 



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