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farmers are prejudiced against feeding grain to young an 

 iraals, but this prejudice is unfounded. Heifers should 

 commence to give milk when from twenty-four to thirty 

 months old. If they have been handled right you will 

 have but little trouble with them. Still, patience and 

 self-control are sometimes necessary. The worst thing 

 that can be done to a cow is to strike or yell at her until 

 she is badly scared. Such treatment worries her and 

 worrying is as injurious to the health and good order of 

 animals of all kinds as it is to the human family. You 

 should speak to a horse as you would to a gentleman and 

 to a cow as 3~ou would to a lady. Remember that the only 

 recompense our faithful friends, the dumb animals, receive 

 is board, shelter and kind caresses. 



Man was created their superior and most animals are 

 subject to him. He has a right to govern but not to abuse 

 them. Would it be but fair for a man who ill-treats and 

 abuses dumb animals to receive the same treatment from 

 Him who is our superior, and to whom all of us are sub- 

 ject. Do unto others — even the dumb animals — as you 

 would wish to be done by. 



Cows should be fed regularly and at stated intervals and 

 not every time you go to the barn. They soon get accus- 

 tomed to either method. If the first is pursued they will 

 lie and chew their cud until feeding time comes; if the 

 other they will get up every time you go to the barn. 



Oar cows are fed twice a day, this gives them from 9 

 A. >r. to 3 P. m. to rest and enjoy themselves. When cows 

 first come to the barn in the fall they should be given the 

 best of hay. As the days begin to lengthen it will do to 

 increase the amount of rough fodder. When cows are 

 first turned to grass in the spring the change from dry feed 

 to grass should be as gradual as possible. It is useless to 

 state here the amount of hay and grain that should be fed 

 to cows; hardly any two require the same quantity. 



Every farmer, to get the best results, must study the 



