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in breeding live stock, but I wish to say to these young men, do not 

 throw your pedigree away entirely. 



If an animal has not a strain back behind it, it may develop 

 something you do not want. You may get an individual scrub 

 animal much finer in general appearance than your pedigreed ani- 

 mal, but you don't know what may come out of that scrub. 



To illustrate: Mary Ann of St, Lambert was a daughter of 

 Stoke Pogus III, whose dam was Old Margaret. Stoke Pogus III 

 was sold to the butcher before his get developed any form. Mr. 

 Lambert took this strain and brought up what we call the St. 

 Lambert strain. 



There is another point. We want to know what we are going 

 to breed for. If you want milk and butter, you want to look to 

 that feature of the animal. You should look back behind the ani- 

 mal a little ways and see whether it has the power to produce in 

 its posterity the qualities you want, 



Mr. Miller is right in my judgment in regard to this thing of 

 pedigree, but we do not want to throw pedigree away. A man 

 must exercise his judgment and intelligence and breed pedigree to 

 a certain extent, but he must watch the individuality. We are 

 getting wild over strains. We must not be led off by strains un- 

 less they have the individuality. 



The greatest cow on the Jersey side was Princess II, owned 

 by Mrs. Shoemaker, and she made a test of her the first year and 

 she tested forty-six pounds twelve ounces. They were feeding her 

 all the feed she would bear; but one night they left a lot of feed 

 in the barn, and she got loose and ate it and died, 



Mary Ann of St, Lambert stood at the head of her breed with 

 a record of thirty-six pounds. I once owned a cow that stood to 

 compete with this strain. You might skim her milk and then let 

 it set until it clabbered, and you could always skim off of it some 

 new cream. My daughter says I am a crank on cream, and I am, 

 and I think that is why I am seventy years old. I think that is the 

 first and only cow I ever saw, but what I oould stir her cream up 

 and drink it, but I could not do her's that way, because it was too 

 rich. 



If you are trying for beef, breed for beef, and if you want 

 milk breed for milk, but not for beef and milk at the same time, 

 for you will make a failure of both. 



The Chairman : We will hear Mr. Grooms, 



Mr. Grooms: T would like to ask the question if it is not 



