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Study to produce milk at the time when it pays him the best, and 

 that is not in June. This business is like all others — if we are 

 to succeed we must row against the tide a little, try to have June 

 conditions at other times of the year. 



Now, in regard to building up the herd. Suppose you have 

 a Jersey herd, an Ayrshire herd, a Holstein herd. I am one 

 of the men averse to going outside of that breed to build up the 

 herd. A cross-bred animal is a mistake, because the particular 

 quality we want in the herd we can get within the breed. And 

 then as we breed along from generation to generation, we get 

 a much better animal. The tendency with the Jerseys has been 

 to increase the flow, and with the Holsteins to increase the qual- 

 ity, and we have. Jerseys that are big producers as far as quan- 

 tity is concerned, and we have five per cent Holstems. Men 

 are succeeding along those lines, within the breed with which 

 they are working. So I say, select the breed you want, accord- 

 ing to the market to which you are catering, and then have the 

 very best of the breed. You say that that is expensive and your 

 pocketbook will not stand for it. So we will begin with the 

 herd exactly as it is, and try to improve it. We will know, in 

 the first place, what the animals are doing. We have in mind 

 the type of cow we want, and we are to work towards it as fast 

 as we can. In relation to the breed, suppose you have Jerseys ; 

 they come from a place where the climate is almost eternal sum- 

 mer. I wonder if you treat those Jerseys as they are treated in 

 their native country, or anything approximating it? I have 

 seen Jerseys up in northern New York or northern Michigan, 

 and they were out traveling three-fourths of a mile to drink ice 

 water, to toughen them. Put it down as a rule that with any 

 cow that has been bred for a distinctive purpose, under certain 

 conditions, when you violate those conditions you do it at your 

 loss. The Jersey was not built for that sort of treatment. The 

 Swiss cow all her life has been going up and down the moun- 

 tains. She has a foot built for climbing the mountains. She 

 is muscular, strong, a reasonably good milker. The Jerseys 

 and Holsteins have been brought up where they have not had 

 to move very much to get all they wanted to eat. Many times 

 we bring them over here and use them as we would use a native. 

 I do not believe that is the right thing to do, from the dollars 



