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come to what he got out of me for it. ''A thing of beauty is a joy 

 forever" doesn't apply to a cow, for I don't think that a man 

 could go into my herd or any other herd and pick out a good cow 

 without using the Babcock test and scales, although I know there 

 are certain general characteristics about all good cows and that in 

 a measure you .can tell some of the good ones from the poor ones. 



I have a farm up north here and I go up occasionally and tell 

 them what I think about things and what I think such and such a 

 cow would do. I remember a year ago last winter we were putting 

 on some tests. We had the cows lined up there in the stanchions. 

 One made an official record of a little over thirty pounds of butter 

 in seven days. "Well boys," I said, "if that cow can make thirty 

 pounds in seven days, there are four or five others that should 

 make thirty-five pounds of butter. ' ' This only goes to prove how 

 easily" a fellow can be fooled. They didn't find another one that 

 winter that could come up to this one and I didn't know as much 

 as I thought I did. 



You may have noticed that some of the breed papers have been 

 carrying articles regarding show ring type versus production. 

 Judging in the show ring is a good thing, but I want to warn you 

 not to depend on what you think you know but find out what you 

 want to know by the use of the Babcock test and scales. 



Now we have a few men here who are interested in creameries 

 and I w^ant to tell them that I am not at all satisfied with the way 

 we are getting on with this trade mark proposition for butter in 

 Iowa ; we are not getting enough out of this proposition. I think 

 I can explain one of the reasons why there has not been a greater 

 interest taken in it. The time the trade mark was adopted, (and I 

 think it is the best trade mark of any state ; several of the eastern 

 states have made inquiries regarding it), was not opportune. 

 Dairy farmers could get more from ice cream factories for the 

 same cream which was necessary to produce butter to meet the 

 requirements of the state brand. Creameries began to get a lot 

 more for their butter and the ice cream people began to enlarge 

 their business. I got sixty cents a pound for butterfat and I 

 felt that I could hardly patronize a creamery when I could get 

 that price. Now I know from my personal experience that it 

 doesn't take much trouble to produce cream wdiich will sell for 

 top price. We haven't an ice house on our farm but we have a 

 well which contains very cold water, and an aerator which is 

 cooled by water from this well. I was up there one Sunday and 



