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which may fetch them up standing as they plow 

 deeper than I did. 



EXPERIENCE WITH NEW YORK STATE 

 ORGANIZATIONS 



During the first year of my stay at Cornell I 

 received an invitation to deliver an address before 

 the State Dairymen's Association. Coming from 

 the undeveloped prairies of Iowa and all untrained 

 in public speaking, I realized that this would be a 

 severe test of my fitness for my position. I sup- 

 posed that the East was far in advance of the West 

 so I selected a difficult and advanced subject 

 u The Conservation of Warmth in Dairy Barns." 

 I tried to show how much more economical it was 

 to conserve warmth by means of well-constructed 

 stables than to produce it by expensive forage fed 

 to the animals. I showed conclusively that the 

 cow first used her food to maintain her bodily 

 temperature and second,, to replace worn-out 

 tissues; and that it was only the surplus over these 

 two needs which went into gain in weight or into 

 the milk pail. I demonstrated that a good cow 

 maintained her in-born motherly instinct often at 

 the expense of her bodily weight in order to pro- 

 vide food for her young; but that the first toll of 



