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•uceeeded in that as the Holstein breeders have succeeded in their 

 object. The Channel Island cattle produce a ijound of butter 

 cheaper than any other cows on earth. Not only because she pro- 

 duces butter cheaper, but because she produces a better butter. 

 That is where many have. fallen down. At the Buffalo Exposition 

 it cost for food, for the Holstein cattle to make a pound of butter, 

 about twelve cents. The Channel Island cattle, butter for food 

 costs about nine cents. You can't improve on the cream or butter of 

 the Channel Island cattle, because they are bred for that purpose. 

 I will illustrate this: Those of you who were at the Exposition will 

 remember that we had a small dairy-room which was often at a 

 temperature of seventy degrees. On those hot days we took the 

 cream from any other breed than the Channel 'Island cattle, and 

 churned it at 60 degrees, we had grease pure and simple. We had to 

 take such cream and reduce it to a temperature of forty, and then 

 churn it for two hours, before we had butter ,and then we often had 

 to set the butter away for twenty-four hours before it was hard 

 enough to print. We could take the cream from the Channel Island 

 cattle, churn it at between fifty and sixty, take it out of the churn 

 and print it and set it up on the form no matter what the tempera- 

 ture. Therefore I say that the Holstein is not the cow for the man 

 who wants to make butter for market. The man who wants rich 

 milk or who wants to make butter is a very foolish man if he at- 

 tempts to make it from any other breed than those bred for that pur- 

 pose. But there is a cow between the two, the Ayrshire, from Ayr, 

 in Scotland, where they have not so much feed to give her, and she 

 has had to hustle for her living. She gives a large supply of milk, 

 with about four per cent. fat. For the man who wants a good milk, 

 and fair quality, where the feed supply is not abundant the Ayrshire 

 is the cow. Again the man who' wants to make beef is very foolish 

 if he attempts to make it from any other breed than those bred for 

 that purpose, such as the Shorthorns or Hereford. You see I am not 

 a believer in the dual purpose cow. You say you want a cow on 

 which you can make a little on the milk, a little on the butter, and a 

 little on the carcass, but you can't do that and not lose in every re- 

 spect. I will take for illustration, the Holstein, the extreme dairy 

 breed, aud the Hereford or Shorthorn, the extreme beef breed. We 

 will put both on th'e market, both equally well fed, and weighing the 

 same, and the Hereford will bring from one-half cent to one cent per 

 pound more than the other. Why? Because the Holstein is devel- 

 oped in the lower portion of the body and the other up where the 

 cuts are worth the least, in the back and loins. Again, the man who 

 attempts to use the be<»f cow in the dairy, is as foolish as the man 

 who would hunt birds with a bull dog. Get cows of the type that 

 will fit your needs. "I thought," you will say, ''you said you were 

 going to talk to the average farmer, and now you tell us to go to an 

 importer and buy our stock." Yes, if you have plenty of money 

 which most of us haven't. 



We have come to the point where most of us realize that we must 

 "hare a better dairy cow, and that a cow that has been bred for a 

 particular purpose. What shall we do? We go to a man who has 

 good pure bred cows for sale, and select some that we think will 

 aa«wer our purpoge and find that they will cost from one hundred 



