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a comfortable resting-place, clean, dry, and easy. 

 No one would think of starting a factory with- 

 out first oiling the machinery, and so adjusting 

 its parts that it will run with the greatest possible 

 ease. The tie should be such as will enable her to 

 lie in a perfectly natural position. When you have 

 provided the raw materials and everything is oiled 

 and ready, your cow then is in the best possible 

 position to do business as a profitable member of the 

 farm household. With a well-contented mind and 

 a well-filled stomach, she can work up several times 

 as many cargoes a day as if her time was being 

 spent chasing about the pasture looking for sweets 

 and fighting flies. At any rate, you, as manager 

 and proprietor of the mill, have done your part, and 

 there is no excuse whatever for the cow, and no in- 

 clination, you will find, except to do her best and at- 

 tend strictly to business. Nor is the question of the 

 collection of their food with the least possible labor 

 and a good comfortable place in which to lie down 

 the only thing that adds to the greater comfort and 

 better condition of stock soiled. By keeping them 

 in their stables day-times, they are protected from 

 the enervating heat of the sun. They are also shel- 

 tered from storms, secured from jumping into fields 

 of growing grain or fruit orchards. They are pro- 

 tected from drinking muddy, impure water and 

 against thirst. This last is an item that is not, as a 

 rule, given the attention it deserves. Milk is 84^ 

 per cent, water, and a supply of good fresh water, 

 close at hand, is a very important item, because, 



