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The James Cow Pens 



Cow pens are used for many purposes but generally for sick animals or for 

 animals that for some special reason are being given every advantage for 

 development, grovv'th or production. 



Pens are used for animals that need special care. 



Whether pens are to be used for increasing production, for hospital pur- 

 poses, or for growing animals, the great idea to be kept in mind is to so build 

 them as to provide June comfort, light, ventilation and sanitation the whole 

 year around. 



This same idea should, of course, always be in mind with barn building, 

 but more especially with pen barns as these are to house animals at critical 

 periods of their lives when they must receive special care. 



The James cow pen is constructed of steel paneling which does not obstruct 

 light or hinder ventilation. Cork brick makes a very good substitute for the 

 pasture bed; it saves bedding, avoids udder troubles and the most valuable 

 place for cork brick is for pen floors. 



The removable bucket is very necessary especially with the pen used for 

 hospital purposes. Often the animal must not have access to water and often 

 the pen is used for an animal suffering from an infectious disease. There is 

 no other cup so easily cleaned as the James cup, which can be removed, put 

 into a tank and washed, or thoroughly sterilized. 



The James cow pen not only provides June comfort for the stock but 

 makes it possible to maintain this condition the year around. It is easily 

 cleaned and in reality is a hospital, a place where any animal can do her best 

 to throw off disease, to produce or to grow. 



The old-time wooden box stall is a pest house as soon as the first infectious 

 case is housed in it. 



Perhaps the most common use of the cow pen in the average barn is for 

 a freshening pen. This is the most important period for the dairy cow as the 

 manner in which she passes through the critical period has a great deal to do 

 with how she produces during her lactation period. 



The cow should be placed in the pen several days before freshening and 

 allowed to get used to it before the calf is born. As soon as the calf is able 

 to walk he should be removed to different quarters and the cow allowed to 

 remain in the pen for several days, after which she is put back in the stall if 

 she is a dairy cow. 



Of all the diseases that cattle have abortion is by far the worst. There is 

 no known cure. We know how it spreads. TTie only way to stop its spread 

 is by sanitation especially at freshening time. An infected freshening pen 

 can easily cause every cow in the herd to abort the following year. One cannot 

 tell what cow may infect the pen and the only safe way is by thorough cleaning 

 after each calf is born. This is a very simple task with the James sanitary 



