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takes corn and fodder and by putting it through the same process 

 she makes, not ensilage, nor shredded fodder, nor meal, but milk. 



Did you ever go into a glass factory and see them throwing 

 sand into a hopper at one end of the building and follow it to the 

 other to find it in the shape of fruit jars nicely packed for shipping? 

 Have you ever visited a woolen factory and seen wool started on a 

 machine and followed it to where it comes out beautiful cloth? 

 The fruit jar is sand in different form; the cloth is wool in different 

 form, and this is all done by machines made by humans. 



The dairy cow, whose machinery is more elaborate, more 

 intricate, more delicate and more useful, was provided by nature 

 and makes the most wonderful transformation of any machine. 

 A dairy cow is created with a maximum capacity, the same as a 

 threshing machine. The only difference is, you can determine that 

 of the threshing machine at once; of the cow, you can't. A man 

 would be examined for insanity, who refused to pay for a threshing 

 machine that had been sold for a 500-bushel per day machine and 

 he tested it by running through 250 bushels, and then running the 

 straw through again, expecting to get 500 bushels. The same 

 condition, in a general way, exists with the cow. To produce milk 

 she must have the material that contains milk, just as the thresh- 

 ing machine must have straw with wheat in it in order to produce 

 wheat, and she must have the quantity in order to reach the 

 maximum. 



Abraham Lincoln said that near his old home in an early day 

 there was a river on which a steamboat run, and it had a very small 

 boiler and a very large whistle, so when they blew the whistle 

 they had to shut down the engine. There are some cows that are 

 being used for dairy purposes that are constructed wrong. They 

 lack capacity. A threshing machine the size of an ordinary corn 

 sheller would be unprofitable because you haven't room to store 

 sufficient straw with wheat in it to get enough to pay; so the cow 

 with insufficient paunch to store away material enough to make 

 large quantity of milk is an unprofitable machine because of her 

 construction. 



The centrifugal separator is a wonderful piece of machinery 

 and was a great acquisition to the dairyman's equipment, but one 

 that throws part of the butter fat into the skim milk is unsatis- 

 factory, notwithstanding the hogs that drink it are valuable. So 

 the cow that is being used for dairy purposes is unsatisfactory if 

 she diverts a large portion of milk-producing food to the manu- 

 facturer of beef. 



