690 BOARD OF AGKICIULTURE. 



breeder he should wonderfully tone up our herd and greatly add to our 

 milk and butter record. This is simply the experience of the best breeders 

 in history. We can use this sire on our herd and the stock of the neigh- 

 bors for two or three years, and then sell him while he is vigorous and 

 valuable, and then buy another not closely related to him to breed on the 

 old cows and their daughters. Instead of buying a .$20.00 grade bull, let 

 us seek a pure-bred one. that is a good individual and well bx'ed, and 

 pay the price. We ought to get a good one for our purpose for $100, but 

 let's get the right one anyway." 



If you have a son, a partner of yours, who is earnest, business-like, 

 industrious and intelligent, you had better do as old man Wiuslow did, 

 and let him take the lines in his hands. If you don't the chances are 

 you will be sorry. 



So the hunt for a bull began, and it ended in the purchase of an animal 

 of a style •find quality that neighborhood had never seen before. He was 

 a breeder, as had been his sire before him and his calves showed constitu- 

 tion, style and quality. 



The second year the Winslow herd avpraged 2.50 pounds of butter 

 and things were generally improving. The old gentleman began to see 

 more uniformity in the cows, in style and make-up. The calves he said 

 Avere just like so many peas. They used to wonder what sort of milkers 

 the heifers would develop into. Then began the study of calf form, and 

 calf udders. It was seen that some of the calves had not only well 

 developed udders, extending out front and behind, but they also had 

 the thin thighs so essential for room between. Those were good signs, 

 thought John. 



In New England more than elsewhere in America, feeding stuffs are 

 high in price, because in the main they are produced far away on the 

 fertile lands of the West. The farmers bought prudently of grain, and 

 many gave painstaking study to the relative cost of feed stuffs and their 

 value in combinations. There were men about Rockdale who were in- 

 tensely interested in what they fed their cows, but they had not reached 

 the point of learning whether they were feeding profit-producing cows or 

 not. Winslow senior always watched the grain bin, much as did his 

 neighbors, but \intil his son brought new ideas to his attention, he had 

 quite overlooked the significance of the individuality of the cow. Tlie 

 Minnesota experiments of Haecker had Interested him greatly. Later on. 

 Prof. Beach, of the Connecticut Agricultural College, published some 

 experiments of the same kind, that he thought was even more telling 

 than those of Haecker. Beach had 50 cows, wliich ho divided into. three 

 •groups. There were 35 classed as of the dairy type, which from the 

 pictures resembled some in their own herd, which .John said had the 

 proper sliapo. _ Some others had shallow bodies and lacked belly and 

 digestive capacity, while eight others were smooth and fleshy in type. 

 These cows had credited to them lU'S annual milking records. 80 of which 

 were produced by those of the dairy type. 



