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me that answers the question. Those who do the best work usuall}'^ 

 succeed best. And if a man sets out to make a thing pay and 

 exercises due care and judgment, refrains from speculation and 

 works hard he will be pretty sure to succeed. There is a good 

 deal of truth in the old adage that '^ where there is a will there is a 

 way." But we must live on work and take an interest in it. 



But we are slightly wandering from our subject. I wish to call 

 attention to the fact that for New England too large cattle are not 

 desirable. Cows that weigh 1,000 to 1.200 pounds, and there are 

 plenty of such among Holstein-Friesians, are large enough. Our 

 climate, soil and surrounding conditions are not conducive to the 

 maintenance of the largest type of any breed of cattle. 



The man who must depend upon the products among the jagged 

 rocks on the mountain side cannot keep a cow — he must have a 

 goat. A little lower down the small Ayrshire will live, thrive and give 

 milk where the Holstein might almost starve. Still lower down, and 

 along the fertile valleys, the Holstein-Friesian will thrive and give 

 milk. Even the goat and Ayrshire would be better in the valley, 

 but the Holstein-Friesian if she does well would give milk enough 

 to drown both the other animals. 



Consider, then, that the Holstein-Friesian has no equal as a milk 

 machine. Put the feed to her and she will respond. She is equal 

 to a small herd. "Ten acres enough," and a man need not be 

 land poor. Ten cows enough, and a man need not be cow poor. 

 But few Hollanders have over twenty animals in a herd. The 

 great trouble with New England farming is that we try to cover too 

 much ground, and do not do well enough that which we undertake. 

 I believe that most men make this mistake some time in life. 



A very natural and fair question to ask is, '■'Do Holsteins pay 

 better than any other animals?" The reply must be, "That 

 depends." A truckman in Boston would not naturall}" select a 

 George Wilkes trotter to draw his heavy loads. Neither would a 

 Boston phj'sician select a Clydesdale for his driving horse. If a 

 man wants to make money selling milk he wants the animal that 

 will give the largest quantity and will convert the greatest amount 

 of food into milk after the amount necessary to maintain the system 

 has been used, — in other words, an animal adapted to his purpose. 

 There is no more question in my mind that the Holstein-Friesian is 

 this cow than that the sun rises in the east. As a milk machine 

 she is incomparable. But she must be located right and fed right 



