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will nick with him. 1 can't find out in my course of breeding that 

 lliis law you speak of applies. 



MR BAY: 1 do not know that it does apply with cattle. 



GOV. HOARD: I am interested to know if it applies anywhere. 



A Member: Docs a grade ewe ever follow a great ram, both by the 

 same sire? 



MR. RAY: In this case it seems to be an exceptional one. 



MR. NORTON: Does the female throw herself through the sons 

 and daughters or both? 



MR. RAY: I don't know, but all great men have great mothers. 

 Isn't that so, Governor? 



GOV. HOARD: That is what ails you and me. 



MR. NORTON: In the Jersey family you have a cow that never 

 produced anything in the female line worth keeping, but her sons 

 were good. 



MR, RAY: That is often the case. We find it so with some sheep. 

 They never produce a good ewe. There is a great difference in rams. 

 There are mysteries in these breeding problems we have no informa- 

 tion on. 



DR. PEARSON: Kill the dog and save the sheep. I think that is 

 one of the most important things we can consider with relation to 

 the sheep interests. 



SOME THINGS IN CROSS BREEDING. 



By GOVEKNOK HOARD, of Wisconsin. 



Before starting in on my subject I have a number of sheets here 

 which are the tables of the cow census taken in Ohio, which was 

 published in Hoard's Dairyman last April, and I want to spend just 

 a few minutes talking about this work. I have been taking these 

 census and have spent now nearly three thousand dollars in taking 

 them in different states in the Union, employing the most expert 

 men that I can get. They have to be men of exceedingly good judg- 

 ment in order to supplement the lack of knowledge and judgment 

 which the farmer has. I take invariably the men who have fur- 

 nished milk for one year at a creamery, in order that you can have 

 the creamery back ground to fall back upon to determine the 

 amount of cash and the amount of milk, and the census-taker inves- 

 tigates the farmer, the number of cows, the way the man handles 

 the cows, how he stables, etc. He goes to the creamery and gets 

 the (return in cash, and he divides the one by the other, and the 

 quotient is irrevocable. Then they kick and declare it is not right. 

 But then they are answered by saying, "Well, you furnished the 

 facts; if you lied then there is no recourse." Now, this was evident 



