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If } T ou have a herd of grade Guernseys put a thoroughbred 

 Jersey sire at the head. If you have a herd of grade Jerseys, 

 put at the head a thoroughbred Guernsey sire. I would not 

 advocate this cross breeding with any other two breeds. 



(2). Note the fact that the first owner of the cows did not 

 fulfill the laws required. You can see the necessity for a cow 

 owner to bestir himself to understand these laws. How can 

 he understand them if he will not take in the necessary knowl- 

 edge. He must make himself intelligent on this cow question. 



(3). That these cows yielded fully two hundred pounds 

 more of butter each than the average cow does that the aver- 

 age farmer is so contented with. 



To produce as much butter as these eleven cows produced 

 would require twentv-eight cows of the average kind. Now if 

 you want to see how the improved cow and the improved 

 dairyman both combine to make good profit, just imagine Mr. 

 Carpenter on one farm with eleven cows doing the same busi- 

 ness that the average farmer would require twenty-eight to 

 do. Think of what a nice profit there would be in the cost of 

 keeping those extra seventeen cows. 



Then think that the twenty-eight average cows do business 

 at an absolute loss, and you can gain some idea where thou- 

 sands of farmers find themselves who will not believe though 

 an angel from Heaven came down and declared the truth to 

 them. Even the poor unprofitable cow that is eating right 

 into their vitals every day cannot make them see it. 



Mr. Carpenter and his cows are the result of making a study 

 of dairy wisdom. The average farmer with his average cow 

 is the result of refusing to learn the lesson of profit and loss. 



Verily the Good Book is right when it says," The wise man 

 forseetri the evil and hideth himself" — (behind a good cow) 

 — "but the foolish pass on and are punished " — with poor 

 cows). 



I have cited you the case of Mr. Carpenter because I wished 

 to show what a man could do in a comparatively new state. 

 The same demonstration can be found in almost any state in 

 the Union. The same principles, the same law, can be ap- 

 plied everywhere. 



(1). The man of dairy intelligence. 



(2). The cow of dairy blood and capacity. 



Such a man will have such cows. One follows the other as 

 day follows night. Such a man will study the feeding prob- 

 lem. He will not sneer and call it " book farming." He will 

 study the barn and stable question. He will prosper because 

 he ''fulfills the law the cow requires." 



