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in their ranks. They have gone on bnilding- the beefiest bulls they 

 could produce, paying no attention to the laws of dairy form and 

 function, and expecting profitable milk results from such a contra- 

 dictory combination. ^ 



I have asked for years this question: "Where are the Shorthorn 

 bulls, for instance, that show in their form and outline, a. milk 

 heredity", or that can be depended on to breed with any profitable 

 certainty for milk production? This ignoring almost altogether the 

 male line of descent, all the time breeding from the beefiest of 

 beef heredity, and then talking about 'a milking strain' is un- 

 scientific, impracticable, and as the old Yankee said 'insensible.' '' 



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