fifteen] happy animals 



animal sentiment, and cultivate their taste for the 

 beautiful. 



Try an experiment in your barnyard. Open it well 

 to the south and east; make it clean and keep it 

 sweet; slope the ground to keep it always dry and 

 comfortable — underdrain if necessary. Then let 

 your animals sleep there. Go out about nine or 

 ten of a moonlight night, and see what you may see 



— as happy a sight, I will warrant, as you will find 

 inside your own household. The cows will be ly- 

 ing down to face the moon and landscape. They 

 will be chewing cud, and at the same time evidently 

 meditating. That they are figuring out Euclid 

 propositions I don't suppose; but they are study- 

 ing nature in their realm — it may be as wide a 

 realm as our own. Cows treated in this way make 

 morally better behaved cows, as a rule. 



I see no reason why our cows should not have 

 box stalls, with running water, as well as our horses. 

 We have so far done very little to humanize the cow 



— probably as little as for any creature associated 

 with us. It is only for milk, and for butter, and for 

 beef, that we have cared for her. Some day there 

 will be a breed of cows as intelligent as horses and 

 dogs, and cleanly in their habits. Going to my 



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