INSTITUTR PAPERS. 93 



try. How are you going to do it if you sell the milk? In that 

 case it will pay us to purchase two or three cows that are large 

 producers of milk solely to furnish the milk to grow calves. 



I have gone over this matter pretty thoroughly, and I have 

 told you what I believe. I have tried to give the reasons that lie 

 behind, because I have very little patience with a statement that 

 has not a good reason behind it, and I say to you, by way of re- 

 capitulation, get the good cows, whether they be pure-bred or 

 grade, whatever their line of breeding may be; have a type in 

 mind, a productive type, with a sire of individual excellence, 

 with pedigree behind him, of one selected type, a pure-bred sire 

 either u.sed on a pure-bred or graded, carefully selected mother, 

 a carefully selected calf that comes from this mother ; and then 

 give careful attention to the feeding of this calf, because many 

 a calf has been ruined in the first six months of its life. 



