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From the official side the score card is valuable because it 

 furnishes a good record of the work of the inspector. It 

 requires a written statement of his judgment in such a way as 

 tends to thoroughness, fairness and impartiality; and the file of 

 these cards has no superior as an office history of the work of 

 the Inspection Department. 



SOME THINGS DAIRYMEN HAVE TO CONTEND 



WITH. 



By Dr. C. D. Smead, Logan, N. Y. 



Year after year we meet in many states in convention, to dis- 

 cuss the cow and her products. This has been going on for 

 many years, and bids fair to continue for many years to come, 

 the end not as yet being in sight. Why is it thus? may be 

 asked. The answer is by no means difficult. We simply have 

 not yet learned all that we need to learn concerning the cow and 

 her ways. She is truly a mysterious beast; were it not so, we 

 long since would have learned all about her and how to best 

 utilize her products. Some have thought they knew all that was 

 to be known about her; yet as she has been the more closely 

 studied by those who were really cow students, the more they 

 have discovered to be learned concerning her. This can par- 

 tially be accounted for by the fact that she has by man's skill 

 been an ever changing creature. The dairy cow of today is but 

 the mere semblance of her remote ancestry. In some cases we 

 find her being starved until she is not what she was bred to be ; 

 at other times we find her being so fed from calfhood up into 

 heiferhood as to make her pretty to look at, and that is about 

 all that can be said in her favor; much like the petted boy or 

 girl of good parentage, the boy growing up a dude and the girl 

 pretty to look at when adorned in tailor-made garments, a 

 diamond brooch at her throat, a bracelet on her arm, a rose in 

 her hair and a giggle in her mouth. The heifer counts for about 

 the same in the dairy as the said boy and girl in the family. All 

 three are rather expensive. We support them for the privilege 

 of their company and not for their usefulness. Boy, girl and 

 heifer were all bred for a higher purpose in life, but they were 



