78 TniuTY-SixTii Annl^al Rki-ukt of the 



THE DAIRY CALF. 



MRS. ADDIK HOWIE. 



Gentlemen and Ladies : If we are to have .profitable dairy- 

 ing, we surely must have cattle in our herd that will make us a 

 profit and the progressive dairyman of today quickly sees that 

 in order to do this, he must rear the animals that will comprise 

 his herd. Now, I know some of you may ask "Wouldn't it be 

 cheaper for me to go out and buy a heifer at two or three years 

 rather than raise her?" And I will tell you right here, "No." 

 Because if you go out to buy that heifer of a first-class breeder 

 or dairyman, he has brought it up in the proper manner and he 

 will understand the value of his work and he will charge you 

 accordingly. If you go to a second or third-class breeder or 

 dairyman, what are you likely to get? The heifer will not be 

 worth putting in your herd and your time and money are both 

 wasted. Therefore, if you are really in earnest and determined 

 to have the proper dairy workers, you must raise them yourself. 



I can understand the prejudice in your minds against a 

 woman telling a man how to raise a dairy animal. But I am 

 going to ask you right here to give this matter just a little bit 

 of earnest thought, and if you will for one minute consider it, 

 you will all remember that the calf that mother and the girls 

 raised always made the best cow. Why was it? Not because 

 mother and the girls were wiser. Oh, no ; no woman ever at- 

 tempts to think that. Not because mother and the girls were 

 wiser or more determined in their efforts to bring about good 

 results, but because there is a bond of sympathy between the 

 human and the bovine mother, the bond of motherhood. There- 

 fore, I sincerely believe that the woman is better calculated to 

 look after the interests of the cow than is a man. 



A noted man was once asked when to begin the training of a 

 child, and the answer was "Two hundred years before it is born." 

 Yes, stop and think a bit ! Two hundred years of honor and 

 valor on one side, and 200 years of culture and refinement on 

 the other ! Wouldn't that go a long ways toward giving the 



