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stables are constructed so that the cows are at the manger. Iff a cow is 

 longer than another, it is impossible in that condition to have the cows 

 all clean. Some will have droppings on the platform and it requires a 

 great deal of labor to cleanse them and in a majority of cases they are 

 not cleansed. They are milked in a filthy condition and no matter what 

 the milk is used for, it is contain! nated. I have met men of good intelli- 

 gence that thought that flavor — woodeny flavor— was in all butter. 



Right in this line I will tell you of the report made by a German phy- 

 sician. He closed his report with this statement: "The people of the 

 City of Berlin consume in their milk daily something like 300 cwt. of cow- 

 dirt." There is no question that that is approximately true, and the city 

 is growing at a rate that they consume more than that now. 



Now this matter of the cow stables — I don't wish to advertise any- 

 body's stables — but there are two stalls in the field that the cows can be 

 lined up on the gutter, the girdle and the ground stalls. 



A mistake is made by a great many dairy men in the time of feeding. 

 The cow will not do as well when there is a lack of thought along this line. 

 The cows know when feeding time comes, and if not fed they are uneasy, 

 and they will not do as well as they will when fed and cared for regularly. 

 One point I will mention in the feeding of ensilage. Don't feed ensilage 

 until you are through milking. There is an odor from it that there is 

 danger of the milk absorbing when milking. Milk will absorb odors in a 

 remarkable degree. 



It is a great big mistake to have men about the cows of whom cows 

 are afraid. I can think of nothing that annoys me more than to go to a 

 farm and see any of the men out among the cows, and the cows getting 

 away from him because they have a fear of the man. They do not feel safe 

 to let the man get within reach of them. Now, that class of men I pay off 

 just as fast as I can find some one to put in their places, and they under- 

 stand it too. They know that that sort of work does not fill the bill. It 

 is a mistake to whip a cow when ehe kicks. I will guarantee rhere is not 

 a case in a thousand where a cow kicks because she is naturally ugly. 



I will tell you a little incident of twenty-five years ago. I lived on the 

 farm and was all done up in enthusiasm for the work. One day a man in 

 our town, who kept a couple of cows, came to me and said one of his cows 

 was getting ugly and he thought he would have to get rid of her. I told 



