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good cows except one; that one he did not intend to keep, as 

 he did not think she was worth keeping. I inquired of the 

 neighbors and they said he had one of the best herds in the 

 State ; he was a man who would not keep a poor cow. I bought 

 them and took them home. They all gave a fair amount of 

 milk. The first of the winter I was in Winthrop and I called 

 up to see him and told him that I thought some of them were 

 better cows than others. He said, "You will find there is not 

 much difference." But I have found that one cow in the lot, 

 about as homely a cow as you can imagine, has made over 500 

 pounds of butter in a year, while another one, which I have 

 told you about, made only 173 pounds. I do not believe there 

 is a man in this audience who would not have picked out the 

 poor cow for the good one. The one that the man intended to 

 kill made 300 pounds of butter in seven months, and went dry 

 five months. She is dry now, and my son intended to kill her 

 until we tested the milk. She was a cow that had a flabby bag 

 and you would pick her out as giving poor milk, but it tested 

 high. 



My object, friends, in speaking on this subject today is to 

 show how little we can rely upon anything but the scale and the 

 tester to determine what kind of cows we have. There are 

 hundreds of men in this State that we call good dairymen, that 

 do not know what their cows are producing individually. You 

 cannot tell the amount of milk without weighing. My cow 

 that gave the smallest amount of milk was giving that milk so 

 fiothy that by milking four quarts I could fill the pail. From 

 another cow I could get seven or eight quarts into the pail. 

 I want to say here that every dairyman should know exactly 

 what each one of his cows makes, and there is no other way 

 to ascertain this except by weighing and testing the milk. There 

 are hundreds and thousands of dollars lost by the dairymen, 

 because they do not know what their cows are doing. 



