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I sent a sample to Professor Henry of Wisconsin 

 University and he wrote laconically : * You can't 

 do it again ! " But although I could and did, I saw 

 that the expense of this method also was pro- 

 hibitive. 



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Without consulting the University authorities I 

 gradually got rid of the miserable milch cows and 

 other poor cattle which were on the farm when I 

 took charge, and by the time the Universal Barn 

 was built I was beginning to build up a creditable 

 herd; but I was not yet out of trouble. A wealthy 

 tea merchant of New York City, who was a 

 breeder of fancy Jersey cattle, and a friend of one 

 of the Trustees, donated to the farm two cows, 

 and a bull was purchased from him at a nominal 

 price. At this time Jerseys were believed to be 

 the best of all dairy breeds. 



Meanwhile, I had become interested in Hoi- 

 steins. Mr. W. W. Chenery of Boston, on a busi- 

 ness trip to the Netherlands, had admired and pur- 

 chased a cow of one of the now well-known Hol- 

 stein-Friesian breed of dairy cattle, which proved 

 to be so satisfactory that he soon imported a male 

 and some more females and established a small 

 herd in the suburbs of Boston the first one of 



