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the COW would look. Remember that. The cow that would produce 

 the most was the one for me. I didn't care If she was of the shape of 

 the camel or the giraffe. "Handsome is that handsome does." was my 

 motto. I was in the dairy business to make money. That was what I 

 was after all the time. After I had begun to get along pretty well I read 

 that some people got 300 pounds of butter from their cattle, and I said, 

 "I can do that if anybodj' can." I set the mark there. My record showed 

 a constant gain all the time. The next year it was 320 pounds; then the 

 next year, 327; and the next 337; the next, 354. And then I let one of my 

 boys, who had been brought up on the farm, run it. He got married, 

 and I said to him, "My boy, are you going to do as well as your dadV" 

 He said he didn't see any reason why he should not. I said, "You will 

 find out." I wanted to spur him up to do the best he could. I says, 

 (.sometimes we talked pretty big to our boys. I says, "I calculated to 

 make one of those cows produce a pound of butter a day for each day 

 in the year— 365 pounds." He said, "If you can do it I can." I said, 

 "Try it." Do you know when he came to figure it at the end of the year 

 — I was there and we were figuring it all up— and it figured 366. He said, 

 "There, father, I have beaten you; I have got more than a pound a day." 

 I said, "Hold on, my boy, this is leap year; there are 366 days this year." 

 [Laughter.] That year there were twenty-five cows, and four of them 

 were two-year-old heifers; four Avere three-year-olds, and the others were 

 matured cows. Nine of the matured cows produced a little less than 400 

 pounds. That is not bragging very much. I know some men who are 

 doing better than that. They have more money in it, and worked hard at 

 it, and I don't know but more years. Governor Hoard had a magnificent 

 Jersey. He has a Guernsey now. He has been worlcing into the Guernsey 

 breed. He had a magnificent Jersey heifer something like this picture 

 . here on the wall. I know the milk was weighed and I know it was tested, 

 and I don't think the honest Dutchman who did the testing did anything 

 only what was right. Mr. Barnes, of Oakfield, had two cows, one of 

 which produced DI2V2 pounds of butter in one year and the other 828. 

 That came very near being an official test. Mr. Barnes cared for the 

 cows, and lived right Avith these cows for a year; and he has told 

 me he will never undertake such a job again. He weighed the milk, and 

 sent a sample to Madii?on to be tested. You all know he could cheat a 

 good deal in that. He could take an unfair sample; but once in three or 

 four weeks a representative of the Station came out to his farm and 

 dropped in on him unawares, and saw the cows milked, and took samples, 

 and had them tested, and apparently corroborated Mr. Barnes' work. He 

 sold those cows when they were eight years old for $20.00 apiece, and put 

 in a calf for .$7.00 with them. 



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