SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 38B 



Holstein, and for practical purposes in a dairy herd that animal should 

 be just as useful to the farmer as if she were purely bred and recorded 

 in the Holstein herd book. 



Now you see, farmers, that without investing a single dollar in 

 < xpensive females, but by simply selecting males from that breed and con- 

 tinuing to breed that way in about five generations an entire transforma- 

 tion of your dairy stock can be made. If that were applied all over the 

 United States it would add millions and millions of dollars to the value 

 of the stock in this country. But suppose that the farmer adopted a 

 different line of breeding, the same as a good many do, — that he used a 

 Holstein sire the first time, a Jersey sire the second time and a Guernsey 

 the third time. It would simply mean this, that he would be going this 

 way and that waj- (illustrating) and at the end of the term of years of 

 breeding, however many years may be embraced in that breeding, he 

 would be just where he was when iie started. His animals might not be 

 inferior, but in all probability they would not be superior. 



So that the proposition of improving live stock is a very simple pro- 

 cess. It need not involve any great expense and the great wonder to me 

 is that when a course so simple as that can be adopted that that process 

 was not adopted by a larger number of farmers. 



I know the hour is late and I am probably trepassing upon good nature 

 too long, so I will stop right here and thank you for the careful attention 

 which you have given me. 



The President : Are there any question you wish to ask 

 Professor Shaw? 



If there are not, I wish to make this annotmcement, that 

 we have a very interesting program this evening, more so than 

 anything we have offered you yet, and I wish to ask you all to 

 be on hand as early as possible. It is a long program and I 

 want to commence at 7:30 tonight. We will therefore stand 

 adjourned until that time. 



THURSDAY EVENING SESSION. 



S. B. Shilling, in the chair. 



Meeting called to order at 8 o'clock by the Chairman. 



The Chairman : Now I hope that we can have a little better 

 order this evening in the back part of the room than we had 



