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neighboring State) the barn is so hot and close in winter that 
a friend of mine who was visiting there had to leave and go 
into the open air because the hot, foul air in the barn made 
him sick and inclined to vomit. 
“ These, gentlemen, are common examples of the average 
New England farm. Farmers have been taught to do those : 
very things that are injurious to their stock. They have been \ 
taught to keep the manure in the cellar. What is the resuit? 
You have a damp, chilly atmosphere full of foul odors and 
organic impurities. They have been taught to keep the barn 
close and warm, and the only heat it gets is from the animal 
body. The hotter, they think, the better it is. ;, 
“ In the great majority of dairy farms there is not even a 
pretence of ventilation, while the cattle are packed in as 
close as they can conveniently be put.” (Sanitary Condition 
of Dairy Farms, Mass. Vety. Asso., May, 1894.) 
That this condition is not confined to any one district, but 
is general throughout the State, is shown by Prof. Stock- 
bridge, who, in referring to this condition, said : “ In regard 
to some of the points that have been taken up I feel very much 
at home. Here is the table of Dr. Parker s. I feel as if I j 
were myself in some one of the many, many barns in Worces¬ 
ter and Middlesex, and, I might almost say, in every county 
of the State. I have witnessed exactly what he has described 
and pictured before us. There is one point, however, which 
I have always preached upon when I have been in those 
barns which have such close quarters, closed cellars under¬ 
neath, and where cows are put in in October and do not go 
outdoors again until the following May. In those cases there 
is another thing taking place which is injuring the animals, 
and that is high feeding, to see how much milk they can be 
forced to produce beyond the capacity of the animal to bear 
it.” 
On the same subject Dr. Bailey, veterinarian for the State 
of Maine, said : “We have a great many such cattle surround¬ 
ings in Maine as Dr. Parker has so faithfully described in 
your State, and while I did not suppose you had so many . 
around the ‘ hub of the universe’ as we possess in Maine, I 
