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mentally wrong in the method of keeping 

 her. When she is bound hard and fast by 

 the neck the person doing this must make 

 up for the cow's inability to groom herself; 

 when she is compelled to lie down in a bed 

 of manure the farmer cannot shirk his duty, 

 and that is, clean the cow of manure. 



The sight of a cow with manure flanks is 

 so common that it has come to be accepted 

 as the distinctive badge of a dairy animal. 

 It denotes wanton neglect and shameful 

 laziness on the part of the animal's keeper, 

 and the man who stands by and calmly 

 watches the noxious stuff thicken and 

 thicken day by day is unfit to associate with 

 a dairy cow. If his own sense of decency is 

 stopped up like his nose, and the public sen- 

 timent of his home community does not prod 

 him, he will revel in his filth until the State, 

 under a license system, quarantines the milk 

 produced by such filthy dairies. 



If the prevention of this blot on the dairy 

 industry called for a considerable expendi- 

 ture of money and labor the farmer might 



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