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him I thought there must be some cause for that, but he didn't think 30. 

 I told him to get a little linseed oil and after milking apply a little oZ 

 that to the cow's teats. The next time I saw him he was smiling and lie 

 said: "Mr. Gurler, that remedy just fixed everything all right. I found 

 that the cow's teats were chapped. She had been going in the water and 

 got water enough on the udder to cause the teats to chap, but it was not 

 detected in the milking, and when he applied the linseed oil it got better and 

 his ugly cow was cured. 



This question of the treatment of the cows is something that should 

 be carefully studied. It makes me ugly to have a man abuse a cow. I 

 will tell you how I feel when I have seen a man abuse a cow. I have feit 

 as though I would like to dress the fellow out in a red suit and put him in. 

 with a bull with an eight-foot fence around them and let the man fight it 

 out with his own sex. There is no use for it. If I was a girl and saw my 

 fellow ill-treating an animal that would be all I would want to know oi 

 him. 



Here is a mistake that is made occasionally — quite often, I fear. That 

 is fattening a cow after she is dry. I don't believe a man can do that with 

 any profit. The work done at the experiment station shows there is a great 

 big loss in trying to fatten a dry cow. As soon as you make up your mind 

 that you want to be rid of her, increase her grain food and keep on milk- 

 ing her, and have her fat within a couple of weeks after you quit milking 

 her. That is the only way to get rid of dry cows without making quite a 

 marked loss. 



There are many mistakes made in feeding cows during the time they 

 are not giving milk, previous to parturition. I believe cows should have no 

 grain food during that period for two months. Maybe something like 

 wheat bran would be all right, but better to have no grain food for that time. 

 A cow that is made fat on grain food at that time is much more in danger 

 of milk fever than if she is free from grain food at that period. This is 

 not my idea alone, but some of the best veterinary authorities make that 

 declaration. 



I remember hearing Dr. Pearson of the veterinary college talk to the 

 students one time along that line. I know of people in my little town who 



