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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 uow 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 lifive 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. If is essential that this should be so, because as the 
sons and daughters grow up, unless they find comforts at 
homo they will never become dairymen or dairymen’s wives. 
Many dairymen believe that when cows are kept nothing else 
candle 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 
tako time to cultivate all the vegetables in their season, for 
if anyone deserves a good comfortable living in this world it 
is tljie poor, much abused milkman. 
W- Woodward did not want too much wet or low land; 
preferred rolling lands for dairy use. Kentucky blue grass 
wa | s ^est adapted for a good dairy farm; it would run out all 
ojlier grasses. Pure water was among the essentials; to be 
garnished 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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