Their horns are their means of defense." "Do your cattle stand in these stalls all winter ?" asked Miss Laura.
"Oh, yes, except when they're turned out in the barnyard, and then John usually has to send a man to keep them moving or they'd take cold.
Sometimes on very fine days they get out all day.

You know cows aren't like horses.

John says they're like great milk machines.

You've got to keep them quiet, only exercising enough to keep them in health.

If a cow is hurried or worried or chilled or heated, it stops her milk yield.