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of butter she can make. But any one cannot fail to be impressed 

 with the fact that there is a wide difference in the form as well as 

 the size of diflferent individuals in the breed. Come with me to 

 almost any herd and 1 will show you individuals that are homely 

 and give large quantities of milk and are also good butter cows ; 

 others that are handsome and are not extra good dairy animals ; 

 and still others that combine all three essentials. Now I am per- 

 fectly aware that a great deal of discussion has been going on of late, 

 particularly in the west, about this combination animal, some claim- 

 ing that such an animal cannot and does not exist. I suppose that 

 those who make this claim are honest — I think they are biased. — 

 Let us be charitable and call them mistaken. We will take as 

 our first illustration the great cow Clothilde — a large, strong, well 

 formed, handsome cow, with second largest annual milk record and. 

 largest life milk record in the world— winner of first prize (sweep- 

 stakes) for butter at New York Dairy show 1887 — her daughter- 

 getting second position in the same public test. Twelve animalss 

 were in competition comprising five Jerseys, one Guernsey and §ix: 

 Holstein-Friesians. 



As another instance of a combination animal let us take Lady 

 Fajs a cow never beaten in the show ring, and a cow pronounced 

 by many excellent judges to be the handsomest one the}' ever saw. 

 She won first prize for best Holstein-Friesian cow at the great 

 New York show ; also gave the most milk of any cow on the 

 ground, thus winning sweepstakes in that capacitj'. And she has 

 a butter record of over 22 pounds in one week. I might make a 

 long list of these illustrations, but I will let these two illustrious 

 examples suffice. 



On the other hand, some of the largest milk records ever made in 

 this country have been made by animals angular and homel}- in 

 form. I could name the animals, but refrain. Some noted butter 

 animals remind me of elephants in size and form, of the rhinoceros 

 in their hides and hindling, and of the English draft-horse in the 

 size and coarseness of their legs. Who wants a barn filled with 

 such animals? If it were a necessit}' there. might be some excuse 

 for it. But it is not a necessity, and vmy man who starts out with 

 a one-sided idea in breeding cattle for the present and the future 

 markets is sure to get left, that is as compared with the man who 

 attempts and in a measure succeeds in combining the three essentials, 

 milk, butter and form. The breeding problem therefore becomes 



