THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



growth. After severe frost sets in water is 

 carried by the pailful to each cow three times 

 a day, for plenty of pure drinking water, at 

 all seasons, is most imperative. Large lumps 

 of rocksalt are kept in the yard, so that the 

 cows can help themselves at will. 



All throughout the year every cow is 

 groomed twice a week. 



THE DAIEY 



Milk, cream and butter are extremely sus- 

 ceptible and absorbs odors, so faint as to 

 be imperceptible to the average person. Some 

 special place must be devoted exclusively to 

 dairy work. We are fortunate in having a 

 spacious spring-house, with a floor three feet 

 below the ground, a stone gutter, two feet 

 deep and wide, running all round the four 

 sides, which is fed from a spring which fur- 

 nishes a constant stream of ice-cold water, so 

 far below freezing point that the flow is 

 never stopped. The roof, which is double, 



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