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Do Cows Need Exercise? 
Editors’ Note: All physiccins agree that 
exercise is absolutely necessary to maintain 
human health. Does it not follow that the same is 
true of'the dairy cow? In the modern system of 
dairying, the cow gets very little exercise, espe¬ 
cially in winter, during the period of heavy grain 
feeding, when she needs it most. 
Is this detrimental to her health? If so, how 
can it be avoided under present conditions of 
dairy management? What is your opinion, 
based on your own experience and observation? 
We would like to publish some experience letters 
on this extremely important subject. Let us pass 
on your experience in a short letter. 
I AGREE exactly with Mr. Van Wagenen, 
Jr., in the issue of July 7th on exercise for 
cattle, as I know from experience that ample 
exercise is essential for all live stock, and espe¬ 
cially cattle. Take yourself for an example. 
You know that nine times out of ten if a strong, 
healthy man is kept closely confined in a small 
house, he will soon lose his appetite, get stiff 
§,11 over (especially his limbs), and often get 
sick and never entirely recover, due to lack of 
exercise he has heretofore been used to. It’s 
the same way with cattle, as I have seen some 
that were kept in close stalls all of the winter 
actually too stiff to walk around when first 
turned out in the spring, and would take a week 
or more to get right again. 
When the weather is fair and not zero, even 
if a light snow is on the ground, turn them in 
the pasture for at least half a day to get exer¬ 
cise and water when desired. I do not approve 
of keeping them in the pasture in bad weather, 
for at this season they are far better off in the 
stables, but turn them out when the weather 
clears up. 
It is a good idea to have a small lot attached 
to the cattle-pen or barnyard. In this way 
they can come out and walk around and go 
back when desired. Also have an ample supply 
of water in the lot so that they can get at it 
any time desired; as plenty of fresh water is 
essential for health and also to increase the 
flow of milk. 
Again, we find that a cow is not a good 
breeder when kept closely confined for five or 
six months of the year; or at least her offspring 
will not be what it should or would be if proper 
exercise was allowed. Too close confinement 
also brings on different diseases cattle are sub¬ 
ject to. Exercise helps other breeding animals 
like the sow, mare and ewe, then why not the 
cow? 
Rest Period Unnecessary for Dairy Cow 
M Y experience with the dairy cow for a 
number of years has proved to my entire 
satisfaction that proper feed and care is far 
more important than a rest period, for the cow. 
We have milked cows up to a few days before 
they freshen, though I prefer not milking a cow 
at least three or four weeks prior to becoming 
fresh. 
No, a cow doesn’t require a rest period, 
simply more and better feed and better care. 
She will do the work for you at least eleven 
months out of the year. More and better feed 
and better attention is the one great secret 
instead of a rest period.—W. H. H., Virginia. 
WHY NOT COMMUNITY ICE 
PONDS? 
I T is getting so late in the season that farmers 
who have thought of building ice ponds 
must get at it at once or haul their ice supply 
for the coming summer from ponds or lakes of 
perhaps a considerable distance from their 
farm. Nearly all the farmers who have done 
this will agree there is no more disagreeable job 
on the farm in the winter. Farmers should be 
thankful they are blessed in having a remedy 
for this mean job. 
There are few communities in which there is 
not some farm that is crossed by a brook of 
some sort. This is an ideal place for the ice 
pond. A very small brook damned in the right 
place, and if it is necessary, widened a little 
above the dam, will supply the dairy farmers 
of that community with their summer’s ice. — 
R. E. W., New York. 
CONCRETE ICE CELLAR 
Will ice keep in a concrete basement providing I put 
a dead air space of boards all around the walls? The floor 
is also of concrete. We have a gutter in the floor to carry 
off the excess moisture.—R. F., New York. 
I T is our opinion that ice properly packed and 
protected will keep in a basement as in an 
ordinary ice house. My suggestion would be 
to stack the ice to within a foot of the wall and 
fill this space with sawdust. The sawdust 
serves as an insulating material and provides a 
dead air space between the wall of the base¬ 
ment and the ice. This method of insulating 
the ice would be more reasonable than con¬ 
structing a wood wall and insulating this wall 
so as to provide a dead air space through which 
the heat would not be transmitted. 
(Continued on page 18 ) 
_ Make four 
MILKERS PAY 
Every cow in your herd can be made to pro¬ 
duce up to her full capacity 
—if you look well to her ration, her health, 
her appetite and her digestion. 
Balance the ration. Feed bran, oats and 
corn, or their equivalent, cottonseed or linseed 
meal, clover hay, alfalfa, silage—pasture in 
season. 
Remember, the better the appetite the 
greater the food consumption, the greater the 
milk production. 
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Keeps Cows Healthy Makes Cows Hungry 
It conditions cows to turn their ration of 
grain, hay and fodder into pails of milk. 
It contains Nux Vomica, greatest of all 
nerve tonics. Quassia produces appetite, aids 
digestion. Salts of Iron keeps the blood rich. 
There are Laxatives for the bowels, Diuretics 
for the kidneys, to help throw off the waste 
materials which so often clog the cow’s system. 
Excellent for cows at calving. Feed it be¬ 
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Tell your dealer how many cows you have. 
He has a package to suit. GUARANTEED. 
25-lb. Pail $2.25 100-lb. Drum $8.00 
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Honest goods—honest price—why pay more?, 
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