Clean Milk 



they are clean, and through no exertion of 

 the herdsman. 



The reason for this is simple, and must be 

 evident to any one after a moment's thought. 

 The cow, naturally a cleanly animal, avoids 

 pollution if she can, and when at liberty in 

 the fields not only does so, but carefully 

 grooms her own body. It is only when the 

 cow is treated like a pig or tied down like a 

 prisoner in a loathsome dungeon that she 

 becomes dirty. Nobody asks the farmer to 

 clean his cows ; they themselves will do that 

 if given half a chance; but he should play 

 fair with them, not lead them into a muddy, 

 filthy yard, where each step splashes manure 

 half way up their flanks, or pen them in a 

 space only large enough for a sow and her 

 litter. 



The practise of enclosing cows in the space 

 between two wings of a barn, or in a narrow 

 yard formed by a fence around three sides 

 of a building, is responsible for so much 

 defilement of cows that for his own advan- 

 tage, pecuniary and otherwise, a dairy far- 



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