COMFORT FOR COWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1924, Page 1

COMFORT FOR COWS.

Cows in Holland are treated with as much consideration as human beings. They have the best ol loud. I hwir sheds are furnished. They even have overcoats when they go out. -ays John Ashford in the “Daily .Mail.” There are hire curtains in tlie windows of many Dutch cowsheds. \ erv oßon the Fnglish cow has not even a window. And tile floors are laid with shining white tiles, kept spotlessly clean. best her tail should drag in the.diri the Dutch cow has it held up by a neat chain from the roof. Her horns tire scrubbed and .polished. She is carefully •'momeil. As she spends eight months of the year indoors, perhaps these eomtorts are necessary, fn lighten the darkness of winter the cowshed is provided with elect tie light. There is also some kind of heating system. The Dutch spring is generally very cold and wittily. Therefore, when the lucky Dutch cow is turned out to graze in May. she i> well wrapped tip. The [tampered animal must not catch cold. The -beer cleanliness of everything connected with the cowshed should he an example to Knglish tanners. Kverythittg. from the shilling milk pails to the beautifully carved milking stools, is as clean as it is humanely possible to make it. There is a farm in Holland where pigs are kept—and where each pig lias a sort of little bathroom attached to Its stv. The modern hotel, with its bathroom for every bedroom, is not s o wonderful after all.