SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 377 



COWS or good animals of any kind, for if there were it would be 

 easy. \\'e have, however, inferior cows no matter how care- 

 fully we may feed and how we may develop them. I hold this, 

 as I stated in my address, that the cow with a high dairy pen- 

 chant is harder to produce uniformly and regularly than the 

 cow with good beef qualities, for the reason that those qualities 

 of milk giving associate with the nervous function and vital 

 force of the cow and are artificially developed to perhaps a 

 greater extent than beef qualities, or at any rate they are not as 

 easily transmitted as the other qualities ; and, though you may 

 select your breeding stock with the utmost care, you will find 

 some cows in your herd like that one. We had a half sister 

 to this other cow with the high record of 449 lbs., that had the 

 same amount of Columbia blood in her veins that this cow had. 

 and she was a failure as a dairy type of cow. Hers was a case 

 where the inherent dairy capacity had not asserted itself. 

 Breeders will find that to be the case, no matter what kind of 

 stock, what kind of breed that they use. they will find animals 

 with the very best ancestors in the way of pedigree, even sur- 

 rounded by the best treatment and most favorable conditions, 

 that will fail. The only means of combatting this is to be 

 posted on our grades and ne\-er produce from that kind, but 

 produce from the best and the longer we continue to produce 

 in that way the more we .will intensify the strong blood lines 

 and favorable strains of breeding, the more uniform will be the 

 product. So it is exceedingly necessary for the man who is 

 keeping cows for milk especially and even for other purposes 

 as well, to study the effects of these animals. He will find a 

 good many will be disappointing, and if conditions are not favor- 

 able the number disappointing will be greater. 



The President : The next will be a recitation by ]Miss 

 Inez Jackson. "A German ^lonologue." 



The President : The Iowa State Dairy Association has 

 always been very lucky in the fact that if we were disappointed 

 in one speaker we always had another just as good and some- 

 times better. A\'e are up against that proposition again. We 

 have had a telegram from ]\Ir. Trow saving that he was in 



