FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 173 



Cups Add 4 Pounds. 



One member of the Brandon Association increased his 

 herd average four pounds of butterfat per cow by putting 

 in drinking cups and feeding a balanced ration. Several 

 members have run short of alfalfa and clover hay and are 

 feeding some more bran and oilmeal to make up for a short- 

 age of protein in the ration. — Selmer Sunderland (Tester). 

 — Items from Farm, Stock & Home and Northwest Farm- 

 stead. 



FROM GOVERNMENT AND STATE BULLETINS 



"Man and beast may live three weeks without food, 

 three days w^ithout w^ater and three minutes w^ithout air." 



A proper system of ventilation in a building permits the 

 entrance of an abundance of fresh air charged with oxygen 

 and removes the foul air. This foul air contains carbon 

 dioxide, which is harmful to life, and also moisture, both 

 of which are in the exhaled air. Moreover, on the average 

 winter day, the building properly ventilated will actually 

 show a more uniform temperature than the same building 

 unventilated. 



Proper ventilation of farm buildings is always neces- 

 sary for profitable stock-growing and cattle-feeding. Dark, 

 unventilated quarters for sheltering stock are damp, un- 

 sanitary and unhealthy. When housed in dark, unventi- 

 lated buildings, animal vitality is lowered, growth is stunted 

 and disease is encouraged. 



Moderns construction shuts out the pure, fresh air that 

 formerly leaked through the loose-fitted siding and ill-hung 

 doors which were in use a generation ago. In like manner, 

 the foul air is shut in and confined in the animals' quarters 

 unless some provision is made to draw off this foul air and 

 replace it with fresh air. Indeed, some very fine modern 

 barns are damp, musty, foul-smelling stables with wet floors 

 and beds, just because no thought was given to ventilation. 

 This condition encourages the occurrence of pneumonia and 

 pleurisy, calf and pig scours, and similar diseases, and it is 



