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Show CLEAN SKIN OF MUCH VALUE If Pores Are Kept Open Cow Is More Apt to Be Healthy Use Comb and Brush Every Day. Nature has given all living creatures crea-tures a wonderful covering for the body. The skin is a most perfect and yet an exceedingly simple system of carrying off impurity and at the same Jme of providing the body with needed need-ed nourishment from the air, through the mysterious channels of absorption. Every cow's body is completely covered cov-ered with this network of cells. If these are kept clean and open, so that they may do their work, the cow will be more apt to be healthy than if they become closed. This has been most strikingly proven by covering the bodies of animals with a sort of varnish which will not admit air, and the poor creatures soon die, their heart and lungs being fairly engorged with blood, just as would be the case If they were smothered. Do we need anything more to prove that it stands us In hand' to keep the bodies of our cattle clean by the use of a brush and comb not now and then, but every day, regularly? If this be not done, the pores of the skin get closed with the dust which is always al-ways present in our stables, especially at this time of the year, when we are feeding hay and other food that is apt to fill the air with flying particles. At once the cow begins to suffer. She cannot digest her food as she would otherwise, and she requires more food and richer food to maintain life in a good degree. |