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horseback or with a whip. Everything must be 

 avoided that might have an unfavorable influ- 

 ence upon the cow. A cow may be so improper- 

 ly fed that her milk is not fit for feeding to 

 babies or invalids, 



I know of one case where a dairyman fed his 

 cows in a way that caused them to become con- 

 stipated to such a degree that his child being 

 fed upon the milk became sicl?. I fully believe 

 that cows can be so well fed and cared for that 

 the milk is safer food for the child than the 

 mother's milk, in a majority of cases. The 

 mother may be so situated in life that she must 

 labor at times until her blood is heated. She 

 may be worried with household cares or unpleas- 

 ant family relations to such extent that the 

 nursing babe must suffer. 



Standardizing Milk. — I practiced standard- 

 izing my milk as the doctors, told me it was de- 

 sirable to have it of a uniform standard. This 

 was accomplished with the centrifugal sepa- 

 rator by allowing the cream and skim-milk to 

 flow together as they came from the machine. I 

 used a conductor with a double head and in one 

 compartment we put a drip cook which could be 

 set to take automatically the quantity of skim- 

 milk or cream necessary to make the standard 

 what we wished to have it. Our standard was 

 four per cent butter fat and if the milk as it 

 came from the cows was below the four per cent, 



