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pedigree of a calf, and I told my clerk to make out the record 

 of this calf's mother and, while she is not the best cow we have, 

 she has a record of 21 pounds a week, and for eight years she 

 has given nearly 7,000 pounds of milk with a Babcock test of 

 six per cent. V/ho shall say that the value of that cow's calf is 

 not greater than that of a common cow? 



As to the selling value of cows, if we keep records of them, 

 as we should in our business, we will know pretty nearly what 

 our calves are worth. 



Prof. Cooley: — The point is well taken for this is just sim- 

 ply on the butter product ; if a cow has a different value, is a 

 stock cow, that is clear profit. Suppose Pieterje produces a 

 calf every year, that adds to the profit and adds three times to the 

 value. She becomes worth $3,000 then. 



A Member :-^I want to ask you if you can get such a cov*' 

 for $1,050? 



Prof. Cooley : — You can't get them for anything. You can't 

 get them because they are not to be found. I made the point 

 that one way to know a good cow was by seeing her milked. 

 Very few people know what their cows do. In the first place the 

 capacity of the cow is not known ; in the second place if they 

 knew they were good cows they would not be able to buy them, 

 they would not be for sale. 



A Member : — I want to ask you if it is not possible for a Ver- 

 mont farmer to purchase a one hundred dollar cow with calf in- 

 stead of waiting to develop a one hundred dollar cow? I mean 

 go into a barn where the hundred dollar cows are sold, and buy 

 a calf? 



Prof. Cooley : — I have got one hundred dollar calves in my 

 barn, but you can't buy them, they are not for sale. You can't 

 buy the hundred dollar calf. That is the trouble all through 

 Massachusetts. I have got a friend in Massachusetts who was 

 called upon to address a farmer's meeting on how to get better 

 cows, and he said to me, I am not a speaker, you write me some- 

 thing to read to those fellows, so I wrote this : "Don't sell to 

 Ed. Williams your best cov/s, keep them to breed from and sell 

 him your scabs and in ten years you will have all good calves." 



President Bruce: — The time for adjournment has arrived. 

 The meeting this afternoon Avill convene in this room at i :30. 



Wednesday P. M.. January 11, 1905. 



President Bruce : — The meeting will please come to order. 

 It gives me great pleasure to introduce Mr. C. C. Gates of North 

 Hartland. who wil speak to vou on "Private Dairying and Mar- 

 keting Its Products." 



