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righl direction. We should not think of breeding from those cows 

 we have out there now; there is nothing in it; thoroughbreds are 

 not any too good for us. 



A Member: Of whai value is the milk escutcheon as the means 

 of judging that in the cow? 



MR. DETRICH: I think it looks pretty. 



MR. LOCKWOOD: What do you consider the best breed for beef? 



MR. DETRICH: The Polled Angus is the most rapid and pro- 

 ductive. 



A Member: I believe that Dr. Detrich can do us yet a whole lot 

 more good by giving us an explanation of the new cure for milk 

 fever. 



MR. DETRICH: I think you all know what the treatment is; I 

 have no occasion to use it. The milk fever comes from feeding and 

 not enough exercise; that is what causes it. I would take a cow 

 and put her right down to exercise if I thought there was any danger 

 of milk fever. 



MR. CLARK: Are you able to offer any suggestion at all in refer- 

 ence to controlling the sex or calf? 



MR. DETRICH: No, we don't know that. 



A Member: I would still like to have a further explanation as to 

 the treatment for milk fever. 



MR. DETRICH: You can just send on to some of these men in 

 Philadelphia, who furnish the oxygen treatment for milk fever. It 

 is simply a question of oxygen, and it is provided with a rubber 

 tube, a milk tube, and you disinfect these before using them. You 

 put this right into the teat and put this gas into it. Sometimes 

 ones of these treatment's is sufficient for a cow. It is seldom that 

 they need more than one treatment. It is simply a little thing 

 designed to be put here into the udder. One man says that if some 

 of these farmers who are such good blowers will just get a quill and 

 blow the cow full of wind, he will be all right. 



, The CHAIRMAN: We will now take up No. 2 on the program, 

 entitled "What Shall W r e Teach?" bv J. H. Peachev, of Belleville, Pa. 



Mr. Peachev then read his paper as follows: 



WHAT SHALL WE TEACH? 



By J. H. Pkachey, Belleville, Pa. 



This question is not a new one. It has troubled the mind of man 

 from the fall of Adam until the present day. The truths of to-day 



