HEAVY MILKING.
In dairy cows, of milking breeds, the drain on the system is liable to prove too great, under a ration-for-milk, warm sloppy mashes of grains, bran, middlings, roots, distillery swill, exclusive diet of silage, saccharine roots, or marc, warm drinking water, a warm atmosphere, liberal salting, and enforced idleness in the stall, with careful stripping of the bag. The butter cows, (Jerseys, Guernseys, Alderneys, etc.) are especially liable to suffer, as the greater the yield the more the system is robbed of the adipose material which is so needful to a vigorous health. When the cow has been reduced to a high-pressure milk factory her physical size reduced to obviate the need of a large sustaining ration, and her milking capacity stimulated to the highest degree, the presence of the tubercle bacillus is especially dangerous.