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iive or six limes the size and capacity of that of the old, original 

 •cow. We have succeeded in producing a cow that will not only 

 ^ive milk enough to rear one calf, but she will produce milk 

 t;nough to well support two for four months, and then she will 

 go on and produce milk enough for two more calves the next 

 four months, and then enough for one calf for three or four 

 months more. She does not stay on our farms long if she does 

 not produce milk enough during the milking period to rear four 

 calves to four months of age. 



There are some other things that we have achieved at the 

 same time. It is an immutable law of breedmg that when we by 

 "breeding and selection abnormally develop any one organ in the 

 "body we do it at the expense of some other organ in correlation 

 with it. \A']ien we have developed a large udder with the 

 ■capacity of producing a large amount of milk, what have we 

 done? What is the organ m correlation with it? The repro- 

 ductive organ, and here is where we can call attention to the 

 fact that a large per cent of the sterility today that exists after 

 the cows have been in milk and have got up to five, six or seven 

 years, is due to nothing else under the sun than the fact that 

 those cows have been so bred and developed that their reproduc- 

 tive organs are weakened, they are dwarfed. That is the result 

 in many cases. And right here we can account for a large per 

 cent of the abortion that exists ; it is no more nor less than 

 inherent uterine weakness, together with sympathy. Please do 

 not misunderstand me. I am not ignoring any germ, but I 

 -stand upon this platform and say, after careful study and obser- 

 vation and much work for the last 30 years, that 80 per cent of 

 "the abortion that exists in herds, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 

 ■can be traced to the weakening or dwarfing of the organs spoken 

 of, together with sympathy which we do not understand. We 

 have spoken of this cow all the while as a machine. She is a 

 machine, an animated machine, but more than this, the cow has 

 senses as we have. She has a sympathetic, nervous organiza- 

 tion, the same even as man. That is a hard thing for us to 

 understand. We must remember that the cow is subject to a 

 shock through the senses, from smells and from sight, and the 

 eflfects of them. We can easily illustrate this. Suppose there 

 is a runaway out on the street, a man is thrown out of his wagon 

 aiid trampled underfoot and brought right into this hall and laid 



