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Cows need special care.— There is no farm 

 animal that needs more care than the cow. It 

 will not answer to give her the same treatment 

 that you do a fat steer. She is much more sen- 

 sitive, to cold, as she has not (if she is a dairy- 

 cow) an inch or two of fat all over her body to 

 protect her vitals from the cold. The steer 

 will be comfortable in a well-bedded dry shed 

 in cold weather, when the cow would suffer and 

 her flow of milk decrease. It does me good to 

 visit a herd of cows and see the herdsman go 

 among them with a kind word and the cows 

 app.*oach him as though they had an affection 

 for him. On the other hand when I see a herds- 

 man go among the cows with a loud voice and 

 every cow begins to get awa.y from him I think 

 that man is out of place, and he should be put 

 to some work that he is fitted to do — if it can 

 be discovered what that is. 



Diflference in milkers. — There is a great 

 difference in milkers. This many dairymen 

 have learned and many more have not, judg- 

 ing from the way they act. I have had some 

 milkers that would get enough more from 

 fifteen cows in one year than other milkers I 

 had at the .same time to pay their salaries for 

 the year. Perhaps some may not believe this, 

 but it is not guesswork. It is a matter of cal- 

 culation after weighing the milk from the vari- 

 ous milkers' cows periodically for a term of 



