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mals wants to make that a business. He wants to make it a 

 business to breed them for show, for the perpetuation of their 

 kind, and for the work of producing. I would not give a cent 

 for the pure-bred animal that is not a producer. 



Let me go a little further on that line before I leave it. I have 

 no sympathy or patience with this breeding of pure-bred animals 

 simply for the artificial points, the black muzzle and the black 

 switch in the Jersey, and the reverse in the Guernsey, and a 

 whole lot more that has nothing to do with dairy production. 

 Here in an illustration : L have a couple of photographs lying 

 on my table, of two cows that were in the dairy test at Buffalo, 

 two Guernseys, and they will illustrate this point and another one 

 that I want to bring out a little later on. Here was a cow, hand- 

 some to look at, that was selected to go into the dairy test be- 

 cause she had a light muzzle and because she conformed, in 

 some superficial points of color, a little nearer to the Guernsey 

 type than another cow that was there equally accessible, but had 

 a black muzzle, and did not have these artificial or exterior points 

 that are so desirable, or thought to be, in the Guernsey. What 

 was the result? That black-nosed cow was sent home and this 

 creature was put in the dairy. The only point that she had of 

 e>:cellence was her udder. She had a most beautiful udder 

 when she was fresh. 



There is a picture of Mary Marshall, the cow that stood high- 

 est in the dairy for butter production ; a cow that in six months 

 made a net profit of nearly $60.00. "Look on this picture and 

 then on that." It was very readily seen that unless that cow was 

 very carefully handled she would eat her head off, and she 

 would go dry. She was fed with the greatest care, and it didn't 

 make any difference, she gave less milk every day, and when the 

 test was closed that cow was giving ten pounds of milk a day, 

 and in the six months that follovv' that test, wherever she may 

 be, she will be eating up the profit she made in the test. 



There is a living illustration of superficial, artificial points, 

 and not those that indicate dairy production. That cow was reg- 

 istered, she had a pedigree, yet a man that buys her simply be- 

 cause she is registered, simply because she is pedigreed, — What 

 is he doing? Why, he is breeding down instead of up. 



The ordinary farmer who is building up a dairy herd cannot 

 afford to do that. What shall he do ? I want to give you some- 



