64 THE FARM DAIRY. 



it makes little difference whether we call her a 

 machine, a, converter, a condenser or some other 

 name; but it makes a great difference how we 

 feed and care for her. Whatever we caU her, 

 she manufactures our coarse fodder^nd^rain 

 into mijk and we should do our part well to aid 

 h&c_ in performing this work to our profit . She 

 requires a certain amount to keep herself in 

 working order and our share comes after she has 

 taken caxe of herself, and whether or not our 

 share is sufficient to make us a profit depends 

 many times on the way we have cared for and 

 fed her. There are thousands of unprofitable 

 cows in the country that might be made pr^iE^ 

 able by intelligent care and feeding. LeFlis 

 commence at home in this work and study to 

 see if there is not some way in which we can 

 help the cow to do better work for us. The 

 cow is never so happy as when she is cared for 

 in a way that she can do her very best. It is 

 with the bovine family as it is with the human 

 family, where the true source of happiness is 

 in making others happy, and with the bovine 

 family when we make them happy, they yield us 

 a profit that makes us happy. 



We should learn to know as soon as we look 

 over a cow's surroundings what, if anything, 

 is the trouble, what should be done that has not 

 been done to make her comfortable and con- 

 tented. There are many things which I cannot 



