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lions. You may have to do a little more work for your money. 

 Select the breed that you like. Personally, I am well fortified with 

 reasons for the faith that is within me. Life is too short and too 

 strenuous to make new breeds or to dairy with cows not of dairy 

 temperament. I would say to the beginner buy a son of a very 

 superior cow. Go your length on a bull. If you must curtail ex- 

 penditures do it elsewhere. In the selection of a dairy bull I like- 

 ly differ from some present. I recall reading the views of a 

 splendid authority recently not fully in accord with mine. The 

 first bull that I owned was the son of a cow with a large record 

 that I believe to have been true but of indifferent type notwith- 

 standing having won highest honors at the great St. Louis Fair 

 when at its best. Individually, he did not please me, but I was 

 after records and bought the bull on records. It took ten years 

 to recover from that deal. Records are still selling a lot of bulls 

 that will do no better. I now look for a cow that is a superior 

 individual — briefly the cow that is deep, long and wide of body 

 with an udder that extends from near the vulva in rear to near 

 the navel in front — smooth and symmetrical and closely attached to 

 body; ornamented with four teats of proper size set wide apart; 

 a cow of striking personality; hips prominent and wide apart; 

 neck thin and slender and with a head indicating intelligence of 

 high degree; last, but not least, that she have large, long and 

 tortuous milk veins, and still better if her udder is well decorated 

 with them. A cow of this type has never deceived me through 

 a son if I can grow that son. You may have discovered this cow 

 in some neglected spot and there may have been something in her 

 early life that interfered with a record. She may never h.vJ 

 been afforded an opportunity to show her latent powers but is a 

 neglected example of the relation of form to function. Where all 

 these signs of maternity are present there is little to fear, but on 

 the other hand I have seen cows lacking in dairy conformation able 

 to make a large record but unable to endow their progeny with 

 their dairy temperament. 



I hope to be able to show you plans of a very modest and in- 

 expensive stable suited to a herd of any size, one that can be 

 added to at any time without affecting the general arrangement; 

 the most effective in keeping cov/s clean and providing at the 

 same time for the greatest degree of comfort. It will make bed- 

 ding go further than any plan known to me and at same time in- 

 sures a good bed where needed and not behind the cow. It renders 

 the cleaning of the stable more agreeable than any form seen in 



