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the love and interest you put into the work. "What !" some one 

 says, "Shall we love our cows?" Yes, most certainly, if you are 

 to succeed in your aims and make the dairy business profitable. 



If you don't love flowers they will not grow for you. If you 

 don't love your cows, they will not prosper, because you will not 

 have interest enough in them to look after their daily welfare. 

 It will take your love, your interest, your time, your talents, all 

 of the skill and energy necessary for success in any business. 



If you are willing to pay the price victory is yours. 



REMARKS OF JOHN M. DEERING. 



It would be useless for me to undertake to interest you in any- 

 thing I can say in relation to breeding up stock for a dairy herd,, 

 after the subject has been covered so instrvictively by Brother 

 Pember, and also by Brother Gowell this morning. The discus- 

 sions all through the day have been chiefly upon breeding, and it 

 would seem as though you had had about enough of it at one 

 meeting. Perhaps, as a change from a well prepared and scien- 

 tific paper, it might be as well if I should give you a little of my 

 practical experience within the last few years. I wish to say to 

 this audience that I have been a breeder and a farmer and a cat- 

 tle dealer and a cattle commissioner, all my life. Years ago I 

 used to breed cattle, and I want to illustrate a point by telling you 

 about a little herd of cows I raised 25 years ago. When this 

 country was first settled occasionally pioneers would bring a cow 

 over from England, and the breed was Devon. Why did they 

 choose those Devons? Because they were a hardy breed and 

 could stand the cold winters and the privations the settlers had to 

 endure in those days. The Devon breed predominated in this 

 country for over 100 years, and then the demand came for a 

 larger breed and they began to import into New England a few 

 Durhams. The Durhams in those days were not what the Dur- 

 hams are today, they were not so large. A few of those were 

 imported and they crossed them up with the Devons, and that 

 breed of cattle predominated until 1890 in New England. Those 

 cattle had a pedigree ; they were not mixed up with all kinds of 

 blood, they were a straight cross between the Devon and the Dur- 

 ham. Now I was in the same business that I am in today, I was 



