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Title: Soil culture and modern farm methods
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Taylor, Warren E. 1854- Deere & Co., Moline, Ill
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Moline, Ill
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e herd, every cow bought should be testedfor tuberculosis and the entire herd should be tested at least onceeach year. Care of the Cow and Dairy Buildings While breeding and feeding are essential features, care of the dairycow is of no less importance. The dairy barn should be roomy, welllighted and thoroughly ventilated. Good health is maintained byfurnishing the right kind of food, pure water and an abundance ofpure air. If the dairy cow is compelled to breathe dead air, she willsooner or later contract tuberculosis. A system of ventilation constructed on scientific principles is inex-pensive and a safeguard against disease. Sunlight is a germ destroyerand a great purifier, hence, the cow barn should be so constructedthat sunlight can enter all parts of the barn some time during the day.The barn should be kept clean and gypsum or phosphate rock sprinkledin the stalls and manure gutter after the droppings have been removed.An abundance of pure water should be accessible at all times.
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Unless the weather is extremely cold, cows do much better in anexercising shed during the night than if confined in stanchions. Cowsshould not be exposed to cold stormy weather at any time. Cows should be curried and the udder thoroughly cleansed beforemilking. The milker should be in good health, wear clean garmentsand have clean hands in order to insure sanitary milk. Milk should not be kept in cans or pails in the stables, but be removedto a detached milk house as soon as it is taken from the cow. Thefloor in both milk house and cow barn should be made of cement andall walls and equipment given a coat of paint often enough to preventthe accumulation of disease germs. When steam is accessible, it isadvisable to sterilize stalls, feed boxes, etc., occasionally. Contagious Abortion in Cows—How to Prevent This disease is due to a specific micro-organism. The cow becomescontaminated from afflicted cows or bulls, voided calves, afterbirthsand discharges. The germs persist for months un

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