ISOLATION qUARTERS 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE question of caring for a sick cow 

 brings out, perhaps more decisively 

 than in any other way, how insepar- 

 ably united are sentiment and profit in 

 dairying. That a tender, sensitive animal 

 burdened with her unborn offspring should 

 be gently handled and protected from hard- 

 ship and abuse, receives the assent of every 

 humane person; but when this animal is, at 

 the same time, daily producing an article 

 convertible into dollars and cents, and the 

 amount of this money-making article is in- 

 creased by kindness and diminished by 

 brutality, it is then that sentiment is rein- 

 forced by profit and the two unite and say 

 " Be kind to the cow." 



Assuming that farmers realize the rela- 

 tion between the health of the animal and 

 her profit to him, it seems reasonable to 

 assert that no dairy establishment is com- 

 plete without some provision for isolating a 

 cow. 



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