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by improving our methods of producing them rather than by going 

 out of the business. 



BETTER ANIMALS THE FIRST STEP TO TAKE. 



In no other direction can more be immediately done and with 

 such slight expense to meet this situation and to increase the profits 

 to be derived from cattle than by making a marked improvement in 

 the quality of the animals themselves. 



Fig. 2. The type of mother from which profitable calves must come. Shorthorn 

 cow owned by the Missouri Agricultural College. 



Some fifteen or twenty years ago, when dairying was really 

 beginning to be put upon a rational basis as an important agricul- 

 tural industry, the first and most important step then taken was 

 the elimination from the successful dairy farms of every cow that 

 failed to produce enough milk and butter to pay a profit. A sort 

 pf minimum of production for profit was established, and all fail- 



