Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-01
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
~ DR.. ANDREW NJ SOULE

In the same manner the COW. fed
on an unsatisfactory ration, say Of
corn stover, Cuts down her flow of
milk. Why? Because the dry ration
system relaxed. the circulation work
ing at high speed, or promote the
elimination of effete materials.
Rather it tends to slow down the
circulation and to impede the elab-
Grafton and transference of the ele-
mtnts out of which the milk is to
be made to those organs concerned
With its development. OF course the
cow fails to yield large supply of
milk when fed on corn stover alone,
because it is a low grade food in
so far as the nutriments it contains
are concerned. On the other hand, if
there is more of one element neceS-
sary to the elaboration of milk in
corn slower then is needed the cow
will only undertake to produce as
much milk as the limiting food fac
tor enables her to make out Of the
materials at hand. Hence the rough
age par of the ration must be ball
anced up with concentrates.
Let us get it clearly in our minds
once and for all time, that factory
cannot make paper unless we supply
the wood pulp out of which to pro
heat without fire, that we cannot
make brick without straw. If we
admit these facts then we will be
ready to concede that the cow can
not make milk except in proportion
as we supply her body with those
tenance first Of the bodily functions
and then with a sufficient surplus of
properly balanced constituents to
enable her to provide all the constit-
uents essential for the production
of milk.
The two-gallon COW. therefore. is
not an accident She is the product
selection on the one hand and intelli-
gent and consisting feeding on the
other. She is, indeed, a wonderful
animal, for she produces out of the
food given her each day a product
which may be substituted for almost
any kind of substance consumed by
the human being with satisfaction.
She makes this out Of crude mate
rails which are unfit for human food,
and she transfers the innate sub
stances of coarse folders in the
course of few hours into digest1-
BILE form in so far as the human be-
ing is concerned Cows are so COM
mon that we do not give even
passing thought to the fact that they
represent, next to human beings,
animals possessed probably of the
highest maternal instincts. We new
er stop to reflect upon the materni-
ty of the COW, or the mysteries in
volved in the fact that her body is
able to take up the crude plant sub
stances we give her and elaborate
therefrom the most important and
essential of all human foods. Of all
the calamities which might befall
the young of the human race there
is none which equal in frightfulness
that of the disappearance from the
earth Of the supply of milk with
which our bovine friends provide us.
Should this calamity befall us many
a child would go supperless to bed
this very night because ne us solely
dependent for his life and sustenance
upon milk from his foster mother,
the COW.
Possibly If we could get some of
these ideas centered in our minds we
would have more consideration for
the COW and understand and appre-
ciate her value and service to hui
manity and civilization better Prob
ably we would be willing to expend
a little more sympathy and consid-
Grafton upon her, and certainly we
might be actuated, if from no other
than selfish motives, to so adjust her
ration as to enable her to perform
her greatest service to us with the
least expenditure of effort and en-