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\f)them clean quarters, and after all it did not cost a great amojunt of ^J 

 <V ex*ra labor— system is all that is wanted. IP 



Begin at the beginning, construct proper sheds with facilities for j 

 cleansing, feeding, watering, airing; clean the stalls regularly ; feed 

 them like clock work, for the cow wants to eat just as regularty as 

 we do, and much more so, for we are reasoning beings and can make 

 allowance for deficiencies, but she is not so, and cannot, but is quite 

 dependent on our attention. Water them regularly, taking care to 

 rinse out the feeding trough, and give plenty of pure air, by removing 

 out of contact with the breathing atmosphere, all filth made by 

 the animals. We do not stop to enquire, can this be done, we have 

 seen it done, and assisted in doing it, and it became after all a light 

 and pleasant affair, when regularly attended to. The milk obtained 

 from healthy animals treated carefully in the above particulars, would 

 be milk in fact, and prove a very nutritive food for the members of 

 the family, capable of conversion into infinite forms by proper skill. 

 We grieve to see poor animals scarcely able to draw their limbs 

 along, clogged as they are with their indurated excrements; breathing 

 a filthy atmosphere almost destitute of oxygen — and one cow consumes 

 a large amount of oxygen in a day — dragging out a miserable exist- 

 ence, fountains as they are of the very life-blood of society. We 

 know there are some of ihese filthy cow hovels about our cities, but 

 we know they can never be allowed to accumulate, free country as 

 it is, for the public voice would cry out against them before they 

 could reach half the magnitude which they attain in older countries. 

 But do our farmers attend to the cleanliness and healihy condition of 

 their cattle 1 They do not ! Most assuredly there is a great defi- 

 ciency in this respect ; labor it is said is too high, "we cannot afford 

 time to keep our cow houses like parlors, it is all humbug, leave us to 

 mind our own business." But it is our business, and every man's 

 business, to attend to the public health and public welfare ; and every 

 man should be allowed a voice in a matter so clearly connected with 

 the very elements of health — pure and uncorrupted milk, pure from 

 extraneous mixtures; uncorrupted by foul diseases, engendered by 

 impure food and a foetid atmosphere. We shall state clearly and 

 concisely in our next paper, how r this can be effected without a great 

 expense of labour. 



I'h.e Heath in America. 



Mr. Editor — You are a very bold man — a very rashly bold man. 

 Don't you know that poor Mr. Downing got himself in a very sad 

 scrape amongst uj poor practicals, for treading too hard on some of ) 



I our corns'! You must know sir, that gardeners are not like the con- j6 



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