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might not that first six months of abundance of feeding, or, on the 

 other hand, of scanty feeding, still be perceptible ? I think that is a point 

 often overlooked. 



Mr. Ashburn — He is talking about the dairy type, isn't he? When 

 we are using a dairy cow, it is not nursing the calf. It is not the nurse 

 calf we are after then. It is the type we can get out of that steer, that is 

 from the dairy side of it. 



Prof. Washburn — Are you sure he had reference to the dairy type 

 when he said that? Might not the animal of ordinary type abundantly 

 nourished make as good a show steer ? I am not defending the dual pur- 

 pose cow at all. Last winter when the temperature was 25 degrees below 

 zero and the snow was deep, in Columbia, a neighbor of mine had a 

 Jersey cow — apparently full-blooded — ^^which he kept in a concern which 

 he called a barn — it had a top and three sides. The snow was deep in 

 there. The cow would either have to stand up all night or lie down in the 

 snow. When a man can give a cow such treatment as that he is not ready 

 for anything better. He is not ready for the special cow. When we can 

 get them to take care of what they have got, then it will be time to tell 

 them what to do next. Last December I was sent up into the northwest- 

 ern part of the State, and had to make a night change, so that at 2 o'clock 

 in the morning I was awake and was looking out the window ; everything 

 was covered with snow; the moon was shining bright, and everything 

 looked very beautiful. But all at once the beauty was entirely gone, for 

 there on one side of the fence, all humped up in the snow, was a cow. 

 We have got to teach the farmers to take care of what they have got, 

 then when they get so they can take care of a dual purpose cow we can 

 land them on the special purpose cow. 



DAIRYING A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. 



(By Hon. H. R. Wright, Iowa State Dairy Uommissioner.) 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen — I have not come down here to 

 boast about the pre-eminence of Iowa as a dairy state, but only wish to 

 say some things about Iowa which will make you so envious that you will 

 go and do likewise. Iowa is the greatest butter-producing state in the 

 Union. We make ten per cent of all the butter produced in the United 

 States. We make nearly twenty-five per cent of all the creamery butter 

 made in this country, and for the year ending the first of July last the 

 state of Iowa has made 82,000,000 pounds of creamery butter, which has 

 a value, at the New York price prevailing, of twenty million dollars. 



