18 THE COW IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 



or more quarters affected with garget, can not 

 be expected to produce a clean milk. The first 

 and most essential thing is to get a clean bill 

 of health for the cow that is secreting the milk, 

 as it is impossible to get clean, wholesome, 

 germ-free milk from a diseased cow. 



After the cows have been found to be healthy 

 it then becomes the duty of the dairyman to 

 keep them healthy. Here is where education 

 and instruction along sanitary and hygienic 

 lines may do the most good. Any inspector 

 of dairies should inake this one of his chief 

 aims — to point out to the man who has cows 

 under his care the relation of sunlight, fresh 

 air, good feed, regular feeding, cleanliness and 

 exercise to the health of his cows and the eco- 

 nomic importance of observing these necessary 

 rules for maintaining the health of his cows. 

 This should be just as much the duty of an in- 

 spector as the scoring of the methods and 

 equipment of the dairy. As soon as a man 

 learns definitely that unhealthy cows will not 

 yield a profit, he will refuse to keep them and 

 you will have then done more real good and 

 accomplished more through educating this 

 man than you would ever have accomplished 

 through compulsory legislative procedures. 



Dairyman and His Employes. 



Many times we wonder whether or not a 

 closer attention to the dairyman and his em- 

 ployes would be productive of much more good 



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