634 BOARD OF AGKICULTUKE. 



Mr. (hii-lcr: 1 c.-iii buy protein chcMpc'r in (listillcry, kiln drioil feed 

 than in ^lulen uic-il. hut I w:is sidetriu-kod by getting some that was 

 not good. The old saying tliat it costs no more to keep a good cow 

 than it does a poor one is not ahvays correct, but tliat point is of minor 

 importance. AVe never have learned why it is that one cow will make 

 50 or even 100 per cent, more from the same feed than another cow, 

 and it isn't necessary that wi- should know. But certaiidy in the matter 

 of care I am safe in snying it cosls wu more to care for a good cow 

 than a pooi- one, but it is certainly inore satisfMclory to work witli profit- 

 able cows than with poor ones. 



You have all heard tlie s;iying that thi- Indl is liaif tlie herd. The 

 bull is moi-e tlian half the lici'd. hccnuse tln> females are more likely 

 to be like the sire, and I care just as much to know about tlie record 

 of the grandmother on the sire's side as 1 do the mother's record. The 

 governor says it is more important, and 1 believi' it. I say it is as 

 important to know tlie butter record of the heifer calves' own dam. 



Now, from a strict business point of view I must talk a little. What 

 other business is there in the world that would stand sucli abuse as 

 is often given to this business of dairying'.' The lack of business methods 

 wliicli are generally applied to tlie dairying linsincss is sncli that no 

 manufacturing business would stand it at all witliout being driven into 

 bankruptcy in si.\ months. We have got in oui- town large wire fac- 

 tories that belong to the V. S. Steel ("omiiany. and 1 have had men 

 tell me liow they are running the linsincss of that corporation. I hap- 

 pen to know tliat that plant in l>ekalb is producing wire at less cost 

 than any other in the combiiK'. and the key to the situation is to cheapen 

 the cost of producing. It 1 could liave as many cows as I have got 

 now. and have each one of tluMii do uliat these loui' liest cows are doing, 

 I would be rich enough to (luit linsincss in a few years. 



It seems to me that there are greater opportunities fur the young 

 men that are coming u]i now and fire getting an agricultural education, 

 than in any other held in this country. About a year and a half ago, 

 there was an attorney came to my farm trom Detroit. He had been 



down on the Atlantic coast, down to (that r2-cent-a-quart man in 



New Jersey), and he came out to my tariii for some ideas. He said 

 to me: "I have got a son twenty-tive years of age that I educated for 

 the bar, and the youn.g man commenced to pi-actice law and lie didn't 

 like it: he stole away to some agricultural college and he is bound to 

 run his father's 4<iu-acre farm, tAvelve miles out of Detroit." And the 

 father was looking around the country for ideas. He says: "I am going 

 to fit up that farm and let that young m;iii run it." and the last remark 

 he made before driving out of my yard was: "Mr. (Jurler, there are 

 greater opportunities on the farm than in any of the professions." It 

 was a professional man avIio said tliat, and tliere is no question in my 

 mind but what that is true. If the young men here will go to studying 



