FIFTEEN] HAPPY ANIMALS 
animal sentiment, and cultivate their taste for the 
beautiful. 
Try an experiment in your barnyard. Open it well 
to the south and east; make it clean and keep it 
sweet; slope the ground to keep it always dry and 
comfortable — underdrain if necessary. Then let 
your animals sleep there. Go out about nine or 
ten of a moonlight night, and see what you may see 
— as happy a sight, I will warrant, as you will find 
inside your own household. The cows will be ly- 
ing down to face the moon and landscape. They 
will be chewing cud, and at the same time evidently 
meditating. That they are figuring out Euclid 
propositions I don’t suppose; but they are study- 
ing nature in their realm — it may be as wide a 
realm as our own. Cows treated in this way make 
morally better behaved cows, as a rule. 
I see no reason why our cows should not have 
box stalls, with running water, as well as our horses. 
We have so far done very little to humanize the cow 
— probably as little as for any creature associated 
with us. It is only for milk, and for butter, and for 
beef, that we have cared for her. Some day there 
will be a breed of cows as intelligent as horses and 
dogs, and cleanly in their habits. Going to my 
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