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Show Mocer;i Govs Lead Fee '. cry Existence Efficiency Ratings, Production Counts In this modem day the life of a cow has become a factory existence. ex-istence. They have cafeterias, efficiency ef-ficiency ratings, and production quotas. Cow cafeterias deliver breakfast break-fast of cut green grass. Overhead feeding devices, for all the world like automat restaurants, dole out scientifically measured rations of hay and grain. When allowed to eat out, the cows are chaperoned by charged wires and accordion pastures. Like factory workers coming off a shift, cows have hot shower baths. Dairy farm loafing barns and stainless steel milking sheds with electric milking machines are nothing more than Industrial processing plants. Assembly line Living for dairy cows reaches the acme of modernity mod-ernity Ln the L03 Angeles milk- l ' v r 1' " " - tr ' t r f - h This Is a typical cow cafeteria that has turned the life of a modern mod-ern milk producer into a factory existence. Efficiency and cleanliness clean-liness is of top importance in modern milk production. shed, where a farmer speaki of a cow as he would a machine. There the herds never see rolling meadows, but live in corrals. They get "shogun feedings" of orange and beet pulp, copra meal, molasses mo-lasses and grains all of it calculated calcu-lated to be transformed into milk as quickly and efficiently as possible. As to those efficiency reports, as long as a production line cow turns out about four gallons of milk a day, she is kept on the payroll, but few can stand the pace for more .than two years. When she falls to meet her quota, she is fired. |
