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ample thai you should have is, lo lake these elements that God has 

 given so richly to the earth lor the feeding of the plant and the 

 growing of the animal, and apply them in the wisest and best way ac- 

 cording to his wonderful laws. 



It is this system that has made Flourtown, that has made it known 

 in the eyes of its friends as well as its enemies. They had to ad- 

 mit it was there. When you went into the dairy room, you saw 

 sleek animals with full udders and health in every face, and could 

 not fail to recognize that every animal was bred for the purposes 

 of the dairy. We discarded all the animals bought for $25 and $30 

 and we took thoroughbreds and commenced to bestow a great deal 

 more labor and care upon them; commenced to examine and select 

 the calves, and in doing this as we learned from the Island of Jersey, 

 the calf was turned over on its back, and carefully examined. We 

 watched the depths of the animal's ribs; observed whether the legs 

 were short; noted the shape of the head, the contact of the upper lip; 

 put our finger between the last rib to see whether there was space 

 there so that the animal could take in fat. We looked at the whole 

 structure of it, to see. whether the animal was good enough to keep, 

 or whether it was useful only for chicken food. The more careful 

 we were in selecting these animals, the better returns we got for 

 them. We watched them carefully from the moment a calf was 

 dropped until it went into the dairy. 



There are some little things that will come up that will have to 

 be considered and acted upon. It is a question with me whether 

 a calf ought to have a protein feed, as is usually spoken of in our 

 dairy institutes. Take, for instance, the case of children. For the 

 first few years of the existence of a child, it ought to be fat and 

 plump, and in order to produce this condition, you give the child 

 milk and sugar to make it grow. Now what applies to the child will 

 apply to the animal. When you come to the other side of the 

 animal, we try to give it skim milk to grow the bones and muscles, 

 and in addition to the skim milk there are several things we ought 

 to add; we ought to add a little more carbohydrates to the food of a 

 calf. I have noticed in those calves that would take on a good 

 strong shoulder in the first eighteen months of their lives, those 

 animals were the strongest working calves in the dairy herd. I have 

 tried the plan of giving them skim milk and bran to keep the animal 

 in the required condition. 



The doctrine taught a few years ago was that a heifer was to have 

 no corn meal at all, and that she was better for not having any en- 

 silage; that clover, hay and bran and linseed was the correct thing 

 in the way of feed. When you keep that skinny outline and keep 

 the bones growing, there is something about carbohydrate feeding 

 that is necessary for the young animal. It seems to come along with 



