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many valuable cows, the supply of which is at all times 

 below the demand for the same. 



Such sacrifice of cows may usually be prevented. 

 One method of prevention would be the owning- or rent- 

 ing of land on which pregnant cows may be maintained 

 during the season when they are dry. Such a system 

 would, of course, entail outlay, but it would probably 

 be outlay that would give a good return, as it would 

 make it possible to retain free milking cows as long as 

 they continued to milk satisfactorily. Of course, when 

 the dairyman located near a city has an ample supply of 

 land, he will have no more difficulty in carrying preg- 

 nant cows when not in milk than the farmer dairyman. 



The city dairyman may also be able, in some in- 

 stances, to make an arrangement with a farmer not too 

 distant whereby the latter can maintain pregnant cows 

 for him, for a cash return, or it may be in lieu of the calf 

 produced by the cow, and for which the city dairyman 

 has no use. It would never pay him to raise such calves, 

 if heifers, for cows, providing he has to buy all the food 

 which they would require during the period of develop- 

 ment. 



A farmer who desired to grow baby beef without 

 milking his cows by hand could in this way secure his 

 supply of calves in addition to those produced by the 

 cows of his own herd. The cows of the city dairyman 

 could be served by the sire kept by the farmer. In this 

 way he could obtain calves of such inheritance as he 

 might desire, especially on the side of the sire. This 

 would make it easily possible for the farmer to raise 

 more than one cow during the season of milk produc- 

 tion, and it would secure for him a sure source of supply. 

 By such a system, the other would be able to retain 

 good cows as long as they milked freely, and this would 

 so far reduce the hazard incurred of bringing in faulty 

 cows when replenishing the dairy. 



Cows in the farm dairy. — In the farm dairy, there is 



