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thing about them has a prosperous look, for they are making 

 money and enjoying the world. What wrought all this 

 change? Stiring up their minds to study ; that's what did it. 



Take this single example of what a dairyman, Mr. H. C. 

 Carpenter of Minnesota, has clone with his herd in a few short 

 years. Here is a record for a year which includes a part of 

 each of the year's 1894 and 1S'>5. The herd consists of 

 eleven cows: 



Louise, a Jersey- cow, gave 7,005 lbs. milk, made 344 lbs. 

 butter. Midget, Jersey-Guernsey, gave 6,240 lbs. milk, made 

 384 lbs. butter. Star, Grade Guernsey gave 5,385 lbs. milk, 

 made 348 lbs. butter. Pansy, Grade Jersey, gave 6165 lbs., 

 milk, made 360 lbs. butter. Cherry, Grade Jersey, gave 5,115 

 lbs. milk, made 339 lbs. butter. Fawny, Jersey, gave 4875 

 lbs. milk, made 270 lbs. butter. Pink, Jersey-Guernsej-, gave 

 4620 lbs. milk, made 313 lbs. butter. Baby, Jersey, gave 

 4680 lbs. milk, made 333 lbs. butter. Flora, Shoithorn, gave 

 4350 lbs. milk, made 254 lbs. butter. Blackberry, Grade Jer- 

 sey, gave 4750 lbs. milk, made 277 lbs. butter. Jelly, Jersey, 

 gave 4240 lbs. milk, made 350 lbs. butter. 



The foregoing is an average of 322 lbs. of butter per cow 

 and an average of 4S66 lbs. of milk. 



When Mr. Carpenter was asked the question " Did you raise 

 most of your cows?" He gave this answer, which shows that 

 it was not a difficult matter to own such a herd: 



41 About eight of the cows I was fortunate enough to secure 

 were Jerseys and Jersey grades. ■ It was the result of a city 

 gentleman coming out and taking a herd of Jersey cows only. 

 He thought it would be fun looking after those Jerseys. But 

 he did not fulfill the lazes the cows required and the result was 

 they did not give any milk and he got thoroughly sick of them. 

 I heard they were for sale and went up and bought them. I 

 do not advocate any farmer going into any lavish expenditure 

 of money to sjet cows to breed from but do not be afraid to 

 pay well for a good one. Take the dairy type and take a 

 Thoroughbred sire and you will be astonished at the result. 

 Think of it ! Take a calf today ; two years from today that 

 grade calf will be giving milk and in two years from that time 

 with ten cows you will have fifteen and in two years from that 

 time with fifteen to breed from you will have twenty-five." 



Now I have given you this statement from the lips of a man 

 who has worked up and worked out the problem of creating a 

 profitable dairy herd. Note carefully some of the lessons his 

 story conveys. 



(1). A lesson in dairy breeding. The Guernseys and Jer- 

 seys always nick well together. They are of a harmonizing, 

 agreeing tendency. The Jersey-Guernsey grade cow. Midget, 



