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there were no stock quotations in Wall street and when industrial 

 securities and government bonds were not, a man's wealth was 

 measured solely by the number of his flocks and herds. Then too, 

 when you think of it, how much of social and economic evolution 

 is revealed by the fact that the Latin word for money and for 

 cattle trace to the same root. And from this far off primitive 

 condition how great, how striking has been (he unfolding, the 

 evolution ? Through the hand and brain of man and the unchang- 

 ing laws of nature, how great the transformation? Evolution 

 touched the wild cow roaming through the forests of Europe and 

 she became the gentle Jersey or the brown-eyed Ilolstein. Evolu- 

 tion found the Arab of the desert shaking milk in a goat-skin bag 

 to get butter and beneath her influence it built itself into the com- 

 bined churn and worker. Evolution found our English ancestors 

 creaming milk in a hollow gourd and in the fullness of time there 

 was heard the soft murmur of a great separator. Evolution looked 

 on men following the cowkeeper's art, without knowledge, without 

 intelligence, without thought and beneath her magic touch his 

 drudgery blossomed into the science and the art of dairy 

 husbandry. 



But someone will say that while this may be all true, yet we 

 are not so interested in what our ancestors did in the past as in 

 what we are going to do in the future and that the bad practices 

 of our forefathers have very little connection with the price of 

 cheese on the Watertown board of trade or the quotations for 

 creamery extras in New York city. And because I feel the force 

 of this I want to try and interest you for a few minutes in the 

 evolution of dairying as it has taken place in our memories, as it 

 is going on around us to-day and as it will probably go on for 

 the years to come. 



First I want to speak of the cow, because (the Chicago and 

 Kansas City packers always accepted) no one has been able to 

 engage in the dairy business without taking the cow into partner- 

 ship. 



So note this : That in the cow in modern times there has been 

 evolution from two different causes along two distinct lines. 

 First, the cow has been changing in an unconscious effort to fit 

 herself to her changing environment; and secondly, she has been 

 changing because of man's selection in his effort to bring her to a 

 new ideal. 



If there is one primary and unchallenged doctrine in Darwin- 

 ism, it is that all life is a struggle for existence and that only the 



