The Cows 



of the animal, but it affects in all too great 

 a degree the quality of her product. 



It is generally accepted that if the cow be 

 dirty it is her keeper, not the animal, who is 

 to blame. In summer, when she is pastured 

 and at liberty to follow her own devices, she 

 can select her own bed, and it is a clean one; 

 she uses the comb, brush, and water pro- 

 vided by Nature, and, aided by a long handle, 

 her very supple neck, she washes and grooms 

 her own body. She asks and needs no atten- 

 tion from the keeper, and in winter it would 

 be the same if she were given half a chance 

 to keep clean. In place of the open field, 

 with pure air unstinted, she may be boxed 

 beneath a two-foot ceiling, which showers 

 down hay, dust, cobwebs, and the settling 

 refuse of a three-story building, her head is 

 pilloried between slats, she must lie in a bed 

 made for her of her own filth, and her ac- 

 quaintance with outdoors amounts to tram- 

 pling a narrow, dirty yard. It can be laid 

 down as a safe guide that when the cow 

 requires cleaning there is something funda- 



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