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It should be remarked, however, that a single year's trial is 

 not always to be depended upon. There may be reasons for an 

 otherwise good animal doing poorly in some given year. In 

 other words, the information thus obtained needs to be interpreted 

 with judgment. 



These procedures are not difficult to put into effect, and they 

 do this much, — they give within limits a fair notion as to the 

 dairy worthiness or worthlessness of the sundry animals. 



An editorial in a recent issue of a New England Agricultural 

 paper utters a diatribe on this matter and attempts to read him 

 who urges better things a lesson. It says : "We are out of 

 patience at the way scientific workers approach this 

 vitally important question of the pressing need of more good 

 cows in our dairy herds, and at the way that they leave it to be 

 understood they have given an easy solution. Dairymen know 

 as well as they do that there are poor cows in their herds * * 

 and they would gladly exchange them for better. The stock in- 

 structions given are to clean out these "robber cows" and re- 

 place them by better. Do these * * teachers * * realize 

 what those directions * * actually mean when * * put 



