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If you can dream — and not make dreams your master ; 



If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim ; 

 If you can meet with triumph and disaster 



And treat these two impostors just the same; 

 If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 



Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 

 Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, 



Aiid stoop and build them up with w(jrn-out tools; 



If you can make one heap of all your winnings 



And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 

 And lose and start again at your beginnings, 



And never breathe a word altout your loss; 

 If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 



To serve your turn long after they are gone. 

 And so hold on when there is nothing in you 



Except the will which says to them, " Hold on ! " 



If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 



Or walk with kings- — nor lose the common touch; 

 If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; 



If all men count with you, but none too much; 

 If you can fill the luiforgiving minute 



With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, 

 Yours is the earth and everything that's in it. 



And — which is more — you'll be a man, my son. 



and can farm. 



BUILDING UP THE DAIRY HERD THROUGH BREEDING 



O. C. Bowes 



Agricultural Department, Columlna University 



In any discussion of animal breeding, it is interesting to con- 

 ^trast the theoretical phase of the subject, which has been taken up 

 by the geneticists, with the more practical aspect, represented by 

 the empirical findings of the animal breeder for several genera- 

 tions. Much of the material from the science of genetics is of too 

 recent finding to be properly correlated and to be generally ap- 

 plicable to practical breeding operations. Much has already been 

 done which offers explanation for some of the disappointments of 

 animal breeding in the past. In this paper, most emphasis will be 

 placed upon the findings of practical breeders. 



One of the early writers on dairy cattle breeding, Thomas Bates, 

 emphasized as early as 1807 the great practical value of cattle 

 tests. Milk, butter, and cheese were in his opinion of equal import- 

 ance with beef in the selection of a breed of cattle. Their func- 

 tion was to yield milk in the first place and then make a handsoine 

 residue for the butcher. The history of the " milking shorthorn " 

 has demonstrated the correctness of his views. 



