The Brookhaven leader., 1883-11-29
Exercise and suushins for Cow.

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gets sufficient exercise, though perhaps
Il isuSual for them to obtanEt alto
cether bv chance. In other words we
do not attach as much importance TO
exercise as is its due. There are many
cows in winter which get insufficient
exercise. They arc kept too closely
stalled or too closely Sarded and seme-
tines'the subject of exercise never &C.
ours to us. If however they are out
in the open air. even though the yard
is small. they will get sufficient eNer-
else to keep them in health; and eN-
cept in bad wcathera COW should never
be confined in stable through the
day Animals do not naturally differ
from human beings in regard to the
treatment that they need; and we know
the result of . combining ourselves in
doors, without exercise or even in doors
with exercise. 1t is not only the OPP
portunitv to exercise that is needed,
but an opportunity TO enjoy the sun
shine. In the spring we know in
what condition our own systems are
in, and we should know that the sys-
tens of our animals are in a similar
coalition and from q like cause. Our
animals like ourselves. during the win
ter consume large quantity of concen-
trated food; they, especially the COWS,
get less exercise; there is little or no
perspiratiou TO help carry of the worn
out particles of the system; the organs,
beside the skin, are therefore under
more constant and severe strain; and
when spring comes the system is more
or less cloggcd. Whatever we can do,
therefore, to counteract these influences
we should do. and exercise and sun
shine will do great deal in that direc-
ton. If we take the trouble to 60
among the cows that are kept and fed
at brewerieS we shall find that part of
their demoralized condition is owning
TO a lack of exercise. They are kept
almost continually in stalls, feeding up
on the one-sided food that is given
them. The oue-sided food is bad
enough. hut that together with lack
of exercise soon produces the most Ia
mcntablc results. The poor creatures
stand and feed and de by inches, in the
midst OF filth and sunless atmosphere.
1t is the custom to milk them for
Il comparatiyelv short time. and
then slaughter them, Tor no cow can
last long under such treatment. Their
standing condition is one of disease.
We suppose that this system is profit
able or it would not prevail. But no
system bearing any resemblance to IT is
profitable 10 the farmer The first thing
Tor him Ia am at is perfect health in
II s COWS, for disease means loss, when
food costs more than brewery slops
cost. The farmer expects to keep his
cows for wears, and sometimes keeps
them more wears than he ought to; and
his policy should be TO build up and keep
M, especially when it costs no more
than the trouble of christening the
stable door. b sides the benefit of as
sur,nr health to the animal, there is the
matter of milk which the farmers own
family consumes to be considered. 1t
requires 50 very little disease to affect
the milk. that the health of those who
drink the milk and eat the butter that
is made from the milk from our cows,
makes watchtulness of the COW 5 health
very important matter. The milk
consumers in our cities are in the pres
ence of constant danger when
they are handling the milk
pitcher 1t is undoubted that
hundreds of infants in the city
die annually from drinking diseased
milk. But city people can not help
this. Farmers can to Il very large eX-
tent. if they are watchful of their COWS.
1t often appears as if we thought that
milk formation was an independent
process in the cows mechanism. fact
that has been demonstrated by the in
quirv which has sometimes been made
OF Us, whether the food tlavors the
milk. Now such a question certainly
indicates that the questiOner has an
idea that milk is made otherwise than
from the food. And the same idea is
often practically, if not really enter
tanned. with reference to the effect of
slight disease in the animal upon the
milk. Perhaps the difficulty is largely
owing to imperfect realization of the
marvellous susceptibility of milk. The
COW becomes slightly out of condition,
so slightly. perhaps, as Just to be no.
ticeablr. In that condition not one
drop of her milk is perfectly healthy,
and there is risk.in using it for human
food. But she may be so little out of
condition as to be wholly unnoticcable
Still the milk will be affected. Hence
the necessity OF taking every precau-
ton to keep the animal in health.
All stables, however carefully con-
structed they may be, are more I'M
healthy than the open air, if the wealth
90 cr is fair and not excessively cold
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of stable, we favor the propagation
of disease. This truth would be start
linglv illustrated if we could look I'M
der the floor of a basement house.
Generally there is ventilation under the
floor, but if the floor is removed She
space underneath will be found to be a
very breeding nest of disease, and hun
dreds of cases of typhoid fever and
pneumonia in cities come from this
cause. There is no sunshine to purify
such places Stables are not so bad,
but to a certain degree the same con-
ditions exist in them, and particularly
in basement stables. Naturally there
is some moisture wherever animals are
kept, and unless it is dried and purified
by the rays of the sun, it must in some
measure create similar condition to
that existing under a basement floor.
With complete ventilation these condi-
lions are considerably modified, but
still they are present in sufficient prom
inence to make the necessity of outdoor
life in. suitable weather apparent
WeSterfe Rural.
Improper Harvesting.
The harness is fruitful cause of irri-