ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 181 



what makes you think you are not made right?" "My nose runs 

 and my feet smell." 



In the matter of keeping the cow comfortable, men have 

 said to me, ''Why, those cows certainly have to go outside for 

 exercise." That is the reason they turn them out. A certani 

 surgeon said to me "All right Hull, you keep your cows in the 

 barn, and I will have to come and cure them of tuberculosis." 

 Not for a minute he won't have to. I have kept my cows in the 

 barn for years and never had a case of tuberculosis. I never lost 

 but two cows, one from milk fever, and one from swelling in the 

 head, but not any from that cause. He said they had to have ex- 

 ercise. That's right, they ought to have exercise. It requires as 

 much energy to produce 30 lbs. of milk as it does for a horse to 

 plow two acres of sod ground. For heavens sake don't think that 

 cow has got to go out doors and run around for exercise, when 

 she has done as much work as a horse plowing two acres of 

 ground. Keep her comfortable, and if you let her out in the cold 

 to wander around she is not comfortable. My cows are never 

 outside when it is below freezing. Before I had a covered barn- 

 yard to turn the cows out in, they were out only a short time, long 

 enough to get a drink and then went back into the barn again. 

 Occasionally a cow came back cold. I found invariably, if cold, 

 she gave less milk, and I could not afford to have that cow give 

 less milk. So I had that yard enclosed, and that herd don't go out 

 until the spring, and they do not know what it is to get cold. 

 They are turned out for half an hour in the morning while we 

 put the ensilage in the manger, and 20 minutes in the afternoon 

 to move around, and that is all the exercise of that kind they 

 get, and it is all they need. They are expending their energy 

 in elaborating milk. 



I am talking strong, but if any man questions this thing, 

 that the mother to yield abundantly of this life sustaining fluid 

 must be kept comfortable, let him ask his good wife or mother, 

 and she will tell him, that when she was furnishing the food for 

 her little one if she were chilled or made uncomfortable invariably 

 this food supply was lessened. Yet we who are practicing upon 

 this motherhood have gone on neglecting the first great principle 



