The Ohio farmer . eapest medicine for cows aswell as for people. Germs, as well asmen, love darkness when their deedsare evil. The floors are of concretewith board platforms inlaid under eachcow. We have found that the cementbruises the front knees, and the ud-der is not helped by the damp, cold,unyielding cement floor. The King system of ventilation isused. The manger is continuous ce-ment, with no round corners. We find,however, in watering, that it is betterto have individual boxes. They are notexpensive, and with a tank and float,the warter is before each cow all thetime. This avoids the w
The Ohio farmer . eapest medicine for cows aswell as for people. Germs, as well asmen, love darkness when their deedsare evil. The floors are of concretewith board platforms inlaid under eachcow. We have found that the cementbruises the front knees, and the ud-der is not helped by the damp, cold,unyielding cement floor. The King system of ventilation isused. The manger is continuous ce-ment, with no round corners. We find,however, in watering, that it is betterto have individual boxes. They are notexpensive, and with a tank and float,the warter is before each cow all thetime. This avoids the worry of cowsat the end of the string waiting forwater, and there is no chance that any-body will forget to water the cows ontime. Gutters are 11 inches deep and14 inches across. They drain to a ma-nure cistern, emptied by a tank wag-on to the fields. We find the deepergutter more satisfactory than the shal-low, as it keeps cows clean with lesswork. Cows face into the center, mak-ing it easier to feed and keeps the. ily digestible than other milk, andProfessor Carlyle of Colorado, andProfessor Haecker of Minnesota, claimHolstein milk has a quality they callvital element which produces boneand muscle in a superior degree. Mr. ILucas is manager of the herd and thesuperintendent of the sanitary distributing station in KansasCity is under charge of Mrs. BerthaBachelor Foster, formerly instructorin Domestic Economy at the KansasCity Manual Training School, and anexpert on pure foods. It is often asked if it pays to go toall the expense of having the menwear sanitary suits, sterilizing cansand pails, scrubbing barn floors, curry-ing cows, icing the shipping boxes,and Ithe many details necessary to secure the low count of bacteria for sanitarymilk. The answer is the old one ofthe personal element. It pays if theright man runs the farm and the rightmanagement is in charge of the depotin the city. In no business can one losemoney faster, if these equations arenot correct. On th
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