July, 1909 
or lie down on the family cow while she 
chewed her cud, and while I was milking the 
pet cat sat on the cow waiting for her rations. 
There was nothing after her to equal an Ayr- 
shire in milk-giving; but an Ayrshire is too 
full of fun and mischief for the ordinary coun- 
try home. She will put her feet on the stable 
stairs and eat out of the second story mow, 
and I have seen one with her feet on a slop- 
ing apple tree picking apples for herself. 
This little talk about the family cow will 
not sut some because it does not talk about 
balanced ration, and it does not advocate 
spending a large amount on mill feeds. I 
believe that the country home should not only 
have a cow, but that it should be so arranged 
that it can feed a cow. I have implied all 
the way that the cow should be thoroughly 
domesticated and treated as a member of the 
family. I believe this to be quite as true of 
the family cow as of the horse and the dog. 
My collies are no more at home with me than 
the beautiful creature who gives me a pail 
of milk twice a day. Domesticity is the first 
point to be aimed at. Home should include 
everything that occupies our acres. “To make 
the whole happy should preclude making the 
whole profitable; yet in the end nothing pays 
better than kindness and good will. 
I have said nothing at all about the habit 
of hitching out cows in dooryards and orch- 
ards and along the street sides. “This habit 
is as uneconomical as it is slovenly. At 
least two-thirds of the food is tramped or 
fouled so that the cow will not eat it. She 
is very dainty about what she has stepped on, 
and will not take it as food. ‘The same 
amount of ground, if mowed, will furnish 
three or four times the feed, and at regular 
periods for her meals. I can see no advan- 
tage in this staking out unless it be where the 
owner is crippled or a woman. In an orchard 
the cow will almost surely get at more or less 
fruit, which will help to dry her up, and the 
limbs will be chewed and broken wherever 
she can reach. ‘The whole yard or orchard 
will be a disagreeable place where you can 
not walk with pleasure or take a friend to 
study your fruit. The cow is invariably 
dried up before her time. In fact, you have 
nothing before you that is safe except the plan 
which I have suggested, judicious stabling 
and considerate feeding. 
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