14 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
Or does the urine stand in pools upon the floor and accumulate 
together with the solid manure upon the sides and udders of your cows . 
Be sure it will weigh heavily upon the failure side when it finds its way into 
the milk pail. The man who manures his milk instead of his land, does 
not deserve to succeed. > , 
Do your cows drink ice-water in the winter, and with rainbow bac s 
stand shivering in the cruel blasts of a fierce “ northeaster ? They wi 
burn the dollar that might convert failure into success, to keep themsevles 
warm. 
Do you feed without racks, in a muddy barnyard? Then the dollar 
that might make you successful is daily tramped into the mud. 
Do you feed your cows nothing but hay and straw in winter and keep 
them on a short pasture half the summer ? Then you neglect to put a 
dollar into the expense scale that might put two or five into the income scale. 
Do you feed your corn fodder in warm weather and bran whi e 
your cattle are upon the aftermath of a rich clover field ? You will very 
likely conclude that it does not pay to cut up corn or to buy bran to feed 
cows. 
Do you keep a huge bull-dog or a poorly trained shepherd that 
« brings the cows ” at your bidding ? And do the animals frequently come 
to the barn with high heads and bleeding heels? “ Shoot the dog.” For 
these cows are locomotive animals that get up steam by a combustion of 
butter material, and every unnecessary step, every motion beyond what is 
essential for the health of the animal, cuts off a portion from the butter 
yield, and from your income. > - 
Does a frequent, vigorous, and improper use of the milking stool, or o 
the toe of your cowhide, or of the manure fork, or even of your fist, keep 
the cows in constant fear of you ? By every excitement that causes the 
blood to flow faster in the veins of the cow, by every infliction of pain, and 
even by every cause of fear, the draft of the furnace is opened wider, and 
brighter glow the fires that are fed with butter. 
Do you set your milk in small shallow pans ? Then if you succeed 
financially you are doing so in spite of a large amount of useless labor. 
Does the temperature of the milk in your dairy room, in the warm 
days of summer, often get as high as 70° ? Then you are losing enough, 
every year to supply yourself with better dairy appliances. 
Do you warm your cream by guess in winter, and cool it by guess in 
summer? Do you guess at the amount of butter taken from the churn and 
•mess at the amount of salt required ? Then I guess that the quality ot 
