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heated and over-stuffed cow. Pastures should be composed 

 of as many varieties of land and soil as can well be secured; 

 this is equivalent to many kinds of seeds on the same land, 

 for when one portion is parched by drought another may be 

 green and fresh. If water can be put in various parts of the 

 pasture during the summer months cows will drink oftener^ 

 and not overdo the matter as is often the case where the only 

 opportunity is afforded in the yard. Shade trees are among 

 the essentials of any dairy farm — a luxury which any herd 

 will avail themselves of during the heated season. In short, 

 everything is an essential which tends to the comfort of the 

 cow and at the same time reports to the dairyman's pocket. 

 It is essential that the dairyman really have a liking for his 

 business; there is no romance about the oow stable or barn- 

 yard, the only attraction is love for stock or filthy lucre. The 

 dairy should be made to pay or the dairyman should quit the 

 business. It is often the case with prosperous dairymen that 

 the cows have a more comfortable abode than the dairyman's 

 family, if he is careless and heedless as to the comforts of 

 his home; this is all wrong. The home of a thriving dairy- 

 man should be a comfortable and (if he is able) a beautiful 

 one. It is essential that this should be so, because as the 

 sons and daughters grow up, unless they find comforts at 

 home they will never become dairymen or dairymen's wives. 

 Many dairymen believe that when cows are kept nothing else 

 can be raised on the farm — no garden, no flowers, no orna- 

 mental trees, nothing but milk. This is a mistake. The 

 dairyman should have as fine a garden as anyone; he should 

 take time to cultivate all the vegetables in their season, for 

 if anyone deserves a good comfortable living in this world it 

 is the poor, much abused milkman. 



Dr. WooDWAKD did not want too much wet or low land; 

 preferred rolling lands for dairy use. Kentucky blue grass 

 was best adapted for a good dairy farm; it would run out all 

 other grasses. Pure water was among the essentials; to be 

 furnished by a well was as good as to have a running stream; 

 watered from a tank; in hot weather cows would resort to 



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