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will get calves that stay hornless in from 80 to 90 per cent of the cases. 
But take a bull of one of the newer hornless breeds, Polled Jerseys or 
Polled Durhams, for instance, to breed to your horned cows, and 35 to 40 
per cent of your calves will eventually grow horns. The Polled Durhams 
and Polled Jerseys have not been pure breeds for nearly so long as the 
Aberdeen Angus, hence are not nearly so pre-potent in transmitting tneir 
characteristics. 
Alexander's law, besides compelling grade stallions to be advertised 
as such, absolutely prohibits the public scervice of stallions with defects 
pronounced hereditary by the state veterinary inspectors. 
Wisconsin passed this law in 1903. Iowa, Minnesota, Utah, Pennsyl- 
vania, New Jersey have now followed suit, and the idea is spreading. 
The only incomprehensible thing about it is its absence from the Okla- 
homa constitution. 
Personally, 1 hope to see the law passed in Illinois. There may be a 
bit of economic determinism in that. I have a sound, pure bred stallion, 
but there are two or three grades and an unsound one nearby. The law 
would make it easier for him and harder for them. I have talked with 
their owners and find them entirely set against the fool new-fangled Wis- 
consin notion of meddling with horse breeding, which is a private con- 
cern. Why shouldn't a man be allowed to breed his mare to the stallion 
he prefers? It is his mare. 
It is merely another skirmish in the fight that is gong on all over the 
white man's world. The world is filling up, getting crowded. Elbow 
room is less than it was, and people can no longer be so free with their 
elbows as they used to be, even though they are their elbows. 
In the meantime, up in Madison, Dr. Alexander is blazing away at his 
pet enemy, the grade stallion. Ho is now using his influence over the 
various county fair secretaries of the state to taboo all grades from 
county fair show rings. 
I wish Dr. Alexander were attached to the University of Illinois instead 
of to the University of Wisconsin, because now he is driving scrub stal- 
lions in large numbers out of his state and into mine. 
DAIRYING ON THE FARM. 
W. E. GOODRICH, CLIMBING HILL, IOWA. 
(Before Woodbury County Farmers' Institute.) 
This subject, "Dairying on the Farm," that has been assigned me, is 
such a comprehensive one that I have been somewhat at a loss to know 
how to -handle it in the limited time at my disposal, but have decided that 
perhaps the most useful way at this time would be to give some advice 
to the farmer who has not had much experience in handling cows for 
profit from their milk, but, realizing that there is but little profit in them 
from any other source, desires to try to add to his income in this way. 
We will assume, then, that you already have some cows and heifers. 
Begin at once to arrange for plenty of good milk, making feed for them 
in fall and winter when pasture fails. This means alfalfa hay or clover 
