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which supply him with food. We have shown the evil effect 

 of bad usage in developing evil passions, which in their turn 

 give rise to demonstrable vitiation of flesh, blood, milk, saliva, 

 and other solids and fluids demonstrable by the morbid 

 physical phenomena produced in man or other animals using 

 such solids or fluids as food. For we have seen that the 

 poisoned milk of an angry bitch may produce in her own 

 pup effects more serious in degree than though of the same 

 kind as those produced in the human infant by the poisoned 

 milk of the angry cow. 



Per contra, it is at least equally desirable to remind the 

 reader of what has been elsewhere said in this work of the 

 effect on animal health and happiness of man's efforts to 

 amuse, cheer, encourage, soothe, satisfy domestic animals- 

 such as the cow and sheep. In the cow, for instance, such 

 efforts tell at once and most favourably on the milk- supply- 

 both as regards its quality, quantity, and the readiness with 

 which it is given up ; while they tell, also less directly, of 

 course, but not less satisfactorily on the quantity and 

 quality both of flesh and fat. Other things being equal, the 

 well treated, happy cow is plump and comely, its flesh and 

 fat are of first-rate quality, free from all disease and abundant 

 as to quantity, while the milk-supply is unexceptionable. On 

 the other hand, the ill-treated, wretched individual of the 

 same species is lean and feeble, its flesh and fat are in sparing 

 quantity and of inferior quality, vitiated perhaps or diseased ; 

 while the milk is also limited in amount, bad in quality, and 

 the irritable or sulky animal may refuse to give it up, 

 such as it is. 



Unquestionably then it must ' pay ' man to bestow some 

 care upon producing content, happiness, good humour in 

 his cattle, and in warding off all chances or sources of 

 anger or fear. In other words, it has been abundantly 

 proved and those specially interested should never lose 

 sight of the fact that mental states artificially producible 

 by man conduce to bodily health, and thereby to the suit- 

 ableness and soundness of animal flesh and milk as human 

 food. Thus that mere sociality companionship has a dis- 

 tinct relation to the fattening of cattle was long ago pointed 



