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we sell from the farm that which has a large part of the farm in it. I 

 will give you a few figures. Every farmer should realize that with 

 every dollar's worth of wheat sold — wheat being worth 80 or 85 cents a 

 bushel, average price, considering the fertility value of that wheat to be 

 on the same basis as a chemical fertilizer that he would have to purchase, 

 and which eastern farmers are purchasing in large quantities — for every 

 dollar's worth of wheat sold from the farm about thirty cents of the farm 

 goes with it; but for every dollar's worth of butter less than one-half 

 cent of the farm is lost. A big difference. Under the grain system the 

 farm continually deteriorates in value while with dairy farming it be- 

 comes more valuable constantly. 



THE BUSINESS COW. 



Now let us suppose that you have been converted by these few words 

 and are going into the dairy business. The first question naturally, and 

 still asked over the State is, "Which breed of cows shall I keep ?" 



Table I contains some interesting figures. It is not a pile of guess 

 work, but actual figures obtained from careful scientific tests=— and by 

 scientific tests I do not mean a lot of nonsense, I mean careful exact work, 

 for that is what scientific work is. All the cows of these different breeds 

 were pure bred, were fed at the same time, during the same four years, 

 in the same fields by the same dairymen, and received the same feeds. 

 So you see everything except the breed and the personal qualities of all 

 these animals was identical. This breed individuality and the individu- 

 alitv of the cows we will now consider. 



