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about }'on, that you don't give it a rude push and push it away 

 from you, because the dairyman and his working partners must 

 be on tlie hvsi of terms if this is to be a successful Imsiness. You 

 must make it welcome from the very start. Let it see that you 

 are its friend. 



I have known some of the more ambitious farmers and 

 breeders too, who, when they would see the markings of the pure 

 bred animal, were so proud, and had such ambition to do just 

 what was right for that animal, that perhaps they would lose 

 faith in their own judgment and might call in some neighbor 

 who was quite a breeder of cattle, as he passed by. And he 

 would say, "Here, we have a new calf. It is a new breed, and 

 I tell you it's a dandy. Now I want to do just the right thing. 

 Would you take it away from its mother at once, or would 3'ou 

 leave it?" And this breeder would say, "I've been breeding cat- 

 tle nigh on to 40 years, and the best thing you can do is to take 

 it away at once, because if you don't maybe she will hold up her 

 milk" or something of that kind. And I have come way from 

 Wisconsin to say to you "Don't do it, don't you do it." And 

 then you will say, "That is all nonsense, you might have expected 

 that from a woman ; a woman can't talk business ; she talks senti- 

 ment." And then I will tell you, "Yes, I am going to talk senti- 

 ment and business and common sense." I am going to give 

 you three reasons why you should leave that little one with its 

 mother for at least three days, and four or five wouldn't do it 

 any harm. In the first place I will give you the woman's rea- 

 son — because. That may be all sentiment. And in the second, 

 ■ — and if you are like the Wisconsin people, this will appeal to 

 you — because this reason is one of cold dollars and cents, because 

 in Wisconsin if we can jingle the dollars and cents in our pocket, 

 we can get the farmer's attention. And then I am going to give 

 you still another reason, and this is common sense. And now 

 you may shake them all up, toss them up, and take your choice 

 or leave them alone. 



In the first place I would leave the calf with the mother 

 three days because the mother is entitled to it for that length of 

 time. And that is the woman's reason. 



And the next reason is the hard, cold dollars and cents. If 

 you have the type of cow that I have in mind, and she is a heavy 

 and rich milker, she will be nervous and excitable ; she will be 

 of a highly nervous temperament, and if you take that little one 

 away from her, she will become nervous, perhaps her temperature 

 will rise, and you will have a case of milk fever in your herd, and 

 if you ever have that, 3'ou won't want to see it there again ; and 

 if you lose your cow, it will means dollars and cents to you. 

 Therefore I would leave it with the mother. 



