.12                THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

   our large cities in America. In the country, pleasant sensation of cleanliness,
learn to talke
   too, the beast of burden is quite as frequently ca of themselves. Not
onl  y exercise
                                                this Care for the person
of the animal, but are
  treated inabarbarousmanner. Hauling wheat at the pains of removing every
feather and
  or wood to mtarket, lumber from town, logs to other unpalatable substance
from their food;
                                                and the water-troughs where
they drink arc
  the mill, and many other jobs familiar to the kept as clean as if human
beings resorted to
  farmuer are occasions for a trial of strength, them. If anybody doubts
the efficacy of these
  which not alone the farmer's boys anzd hired means, let him come and see,
not only how
                                                large, but how intelligent
these dumb creatures
  inenaretenptedoirmprove: theambitious,lazy look; how they watch every motion
of those
  or reckless owner, himself, though old enough who talk to them, and listen
to all they say.
  and big enough to know better, is oen seen in vWhat an affectionate moan
they will utter to
  and b.g enough toknow helter, is ofltn seen inwelcome the milkers, who
are always men. a.
  muddy hollow or fin *ial hill, Mhaking his lines, they say, " Women
tickle the cow, and never
  brandishing Lis whip, kicking old Bob under take all the milk from the
udders, so that she |
                                               gives less and less."
 It is said of them that
  the belly andbawli~g, '-(: i-t up ' when'I the Argovian will send for the
doctor for his
  properly loalel, his teIt i would be  ble to cow a great deal quicker than
for his wife:
  w alk quietll 'and c;nt lntly  at lcaat surely, |but we did not see any
evidence that he was
                                              *  not sufficiently attentive
to both.-The Cotly! -I
 Ethough, lip or o0ve, the. liffictlly.  "cl  Ci1 o.f the Atps-Mide
Johneon.
l deserve thaentselveS to he uvertasked anI pItt



~~~~~~        L-ig al lif t 11 loI, tillie lalihl.Cltean Stables.
                Many teaune'ers overload frou  watil of cor-
              rvect judgment. Thsey don't meat, to abluse thir  It is the
mistake of too many farmers that
              teams, butgmlat They nhlity tc . estimate the cleanliness is
not essential to the health and
>~~~~~tas but lack thec ability to~ cetinate the
                 weight of a given load. These aredeservingcomfort of domestic
animals. Indeed we have
              of eongtemation for that they aeo dest more found some who
erred so greatly in this direc-
              carefully experiment-beginning with loads tion as to believe
, lt essential; while the
              certainly small, and gradually increasing thempractice of the
great majority gives sanction
                 cetil mal   n    raulyicr.igte           to this theory.
              to the proper limit. A man or boy who won't t
              do this should never be intrusted with a team.  Accordingly,
it is not an uncommon thing to
                If any of our readers are in the habit of find cattle and
horses in uncleaned, unlittered
             overloading, we earnestly hope that either the stables, their
legs and bodies two-thirds cov-
             bad economy or the barbarity of the practice ered with an incrustation
of mud and manure.
             will influence them to repent alid reform.  And the poor hog-alas,
how often is he com-
                                                           pelted to wade
for the whole period of hip brief
                            Cleanly Cattle.               earthly career
in mortar of earth and offal
               If there is one thing in which the Argovian up to his eyes.
             takes particular pride, and in which he partic-  No greater
mistake could be made in the
             ularly excels, it is in the care of his cattle.
             They are elephants in size, and their glossy care of animals
than this. True, they will. if
             hides betoken some peculiar art on the part so trained, tolerate
dirt as patiently as do so
             of their masters. Not a particle of dust or many specimens of
the genus homo, But that
             straw is allowed to cling to them, and they are
             combed and washed as only horses are else- Proves nothing against
the doctrine of clean-
             where. Not with a curry-comb, but with old liness, which has
its foundation in a law of
             cards, which, being finer and softer, are more  uenrpldadurpelbe
             agreeable to the animal, and improve the fine- nature unrepealed
and unrepealable.
             ness of the hair. This receives an additional  There is no animal
in domestic use the phys-
             lustre by being rubbed with old flanneL  They iological law
of whose system does not demand
             actually shine; and the gentle creatures have
             an evident consciousness of their beauty, for the utmost cleanliness
of the skin, and any
             they are careful not to soil their ashy-gray treatmaet that
falls short of this mark is there-
             and chestnut robes by lying in the mud when fore, less than
philosophic.
             allowed to take a walk. Animals can acqulire,
             if they have not by nature, a fine sensibility,  But this is
not all: the effluvia which must
             and when they have once experienced the fill the atmosphere
of s stable where aceumru-



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