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It would seem, therefore, to be easily possible to organize a system 

 of farm management which would maintain a high state of pro- 

 ductiveness for a long time without the purchase of any artificial 

 fertilizer except some carrier of phosphorus. 



Over in England they experimented for twenty years with manure, 

 and at the end of thirty years they were still receiving benefits which 

 they could not have received from unmanured land. Manure is much 

 more profitable than chemical fertilizer, as they demonstrate it over 

 there. 



I might mention, also, that we have been able to find no danger 

 to animals by the use of acid phosphate. 



ADDRESS OF MR. HARTSHORNE 



Gentlemen: T can probably appreciate your disappointment in 

 not having witli you the President of the Holstein-Friesian Associa- 

 tion, You, will have to listen, instead, to one of the "has-been's"; 

 this world has too many of them; and now you are going to listen to 

 one of them. I cannot give you the talk that Mr. Aitken could; he 

 is a lawyer, and a polished speaker; that is the reason he could not 

 be here. I am merely a farmer — a "cow-man," and at the Holstein 

 meeting yesterday one man had the audacity to tell me that no one 

 would ever have known me if it had not been for the Holstein cow. 

 I do not resent that, because I am such a good friend of the Holstein 

 cow, that I feel rather proud of it. The Holstein cow has permitted 

 me to come down and talk to you today; she has permitted me to 

 preside over the Holstein-Friesian Association. It is not ability to 

 talk or anything else that has permitted me to come before you to- 

 day ; it is because the Holstein cow permitted me to get down beside 

 her and show that she was an animal worth raising. So, if I cannot 

 talk to you like Mr. Aitken could, I can speak a few words about 

 the Holstein cow and about the pure bred animal. Naturally my 

 talk will lean towards the Holstein cow, because she is my favorite. 



Now, what are pure bred animals? They are animals that have 

 been bred all through their ancestors toward a certain type; they 

 have been bred for so long in that way that they have transmitted 

 to a certain degree these characteristics which have been in the mind 

 of the breeder. 



I want to say something to you today which will show you the 

 reason for having a pure bred sire, and pure bred cattle. 



Now, then, if the animal has been bred for a long time toward a 

 certain type, she will transmit those qualities to her offspring much 

 more easily than a grade, or one not bred to a definite purpose. If 

 we want to make a success in life we must have a definite purpose in 

 view, and if we want to make a success of farming, we must have a 

 definite end in view, and the man who starts breeding animals will 

 not be successful if he does not go about it with a definite end in 



