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Show DfllRYI NO LET IN THE LIGHT. 9 By Edgar L. Vincent. Written for The Dcseret Farmer. It makes our hair stand up to read and hear that there arc few really healthy cows in this country. Of course, it may be there is more talk than truth about the matter; let us hope so, at any rate. But let that be as it may, one thing is certain, to have really healthy cows we must have more air and light in our barns. Go into tlic average farm barn and in the winter time you can scarcely find your way around, especially if you are not very well aquaintcd with the premises. The windows arc simply sim-ply holes cut in the boarding and closed against the wind by board slides which let no light or fresh air in. Few indeed arc the barns that have good sasli and glass windows. Now, this is a plea for more air and light in our staiblcs. No living creature, human or otherwise, can be really well unless plenty of pure air and good wholesome sunshine be given to breathe. Every breath a man or a cow breathes in one of the close, shut-up stables I have referred to, brings in just so much less vitality vital-ity than he had before. Tuberculosis will fly out of a good glass window provided that the window win-dow be kept open as far as possible and clean enough for light to come in through it. Disease of all kinds find in fresh air and sunlight their worst enemies. So if you are planning to build a new barn, plan early for all the windows win-dows necessary to provide light. That is the time to secure a healthy dairy condition. Give these windows sashes that may be easily turned up when necessary, by means of solid hinges. And still further insure fresh and pure air by having the manure piles as far away from- the barn as you can. It is of little use to open the windows if the air which comes in drafts over, a 'big heap of manure. If you are not intending to build, you can still put some good window's in your old barn. By cutting good-sized good-sized openings, framing them securely secure-ly and and hanging the sash the same as described for a new barn you have " " " - r the matter all right. And then if you have a single cow that you have any doubts about, as to her health, let her go and get a sound one. Then keep them all so by means of fresh airair and plenty of sunshine. |