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a very celebrated bull. They led four of his heifers into the ring 

 at one time and I would defy a man to say which one of his heifers 

 was the best; they were marked almost exactly alike. They went 

 up to $900 and the auctioneer sold one at that figure and the man 

 who bought it took the whole four. Nobody else had a chance at 

 them. 



Seven other fine animals were taken into the ring, and the bid on 

 the first* one was |500 and the whole seven were taken by the same 

 man. It shows what breeding is. You heard what Prof. Van Nor- 

 man said on the subject last night. You don't want animals with 

 as many colors as Joseph's coat, and you don't want all this con- 

 fusion in business. What made that Flourtown farm, was the Jer- 

 sey cattle on it. 



They said, Detrich make a lot of butter, but he puts tallow in it 

 and he hauls hay there at night. What foolish people! When I 

 was a boy, five or six of us would start after a wagon and the fel- 

 lows would try to catch on. Just as soon as one fellow would suc- 

 ceed in catching on to the wagon, we would holler "Cut behind." 

 Isn't that the story of life? You holler "cut behind" as soon as one 

 man succeeds. I just like to strike a man who is full of growl; I 

 don't think there is anything that digests victuals better for me than 

 to hear some fellow growl. 



Perhaj>s you ask me, "What do you mean by' a cow for a dairy?" 

 I mean a cow that is on a dairy farm, a cow that is good inside and 

 outside. There are certain external marks that help us very much 

 in selecting and handling a dairy animal. Go to see the best samples 

 of breeding. Why does Mr. Cooper go to the Island of Jersey and 

 bring these cattle over here? Why, it is a little bit of an island? 

 That thing was mentioned by Prof. Van Norman a little while ago. 

 The little Island of Jersey have two or three fairs a year, 

 and when a calf is born, a committee goes to look after the 

 calf and to see whether it ought to go to the butcher or into the 

 dairy. Thej go around and pass judgment; they examine that calf 

 from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, turn him over, and 

 that is the way I always do. I look at that calf; study the indi- 

 vidual. 



You know there is any amount of men who have sons that don't 

 fill any niche or position in this world. They simply stand before 

 the front door and pick their teeth. There is nothing so unfortunate 

 as that; nothing so unfortunate for a young man as not to make 

 himself the captain of his own manhood. Unless he is the captain 

 of his own manhood, he is somethliig like one of these scrubby cows, 

 fit neither for the butcher nor for the dairy, and yet man is designed 

 to be a master of nature. That is what his intelligence is for, and 

 if he would fulfill his mission on earth and creditably act his part 

 among his fellow-men, he must rise to the opportunities that lie be- 

 fore him, as the first and only being that has any promise of existence 

 after death. 



What dairyman can afford to put fat on an animal's back at two 

 cents and a half or three cents a pound when she can put butter in 

 the bucket at twenty cents a pound. There is the dairy question 

 and yet farmers are always talking beef. They call for beef and for 

 tallow. 



What we want to do about the breed is to select the breed you 



