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yielding us a pound of pork. Domestic fowls are 

 also much more economical in the manufacture of 

 a finished product than are beef animals. Since, 

 as already stated, the dairy cow can produce ten 

 pounds of milk on the material required by the 

 beef steer for the production of one pound of beef, 

 it is perfectly obvious that the production of beef 

 is a luxury which can only exist so long as the price 

 of feed stuffs and other conditions are favorable. 

 It must also be obvious that as the cost of 'produc- 

 tion increases, beef will become more and more a 

 luxury and a greater economy of production will be 

 found in a more extensive practice of dairying. 



BREEDS 



In order to start in the right way in the dairy 

 business or to improve an already existing herd, it 

 is necessary to select cows with reference to their 

 milk yielding properties. There is a dairy type as 

 well as a beef type of animal. The dairy type 

 differs from the beef type in that the form of the 

 dairy cow is in general that of a wedge, the body 

 being deeper behind than in front with a large 

 capacity for digestive organs and milk production. 

 The general outlines may also be angular, at least 

 far more so than in the beef type. These differ- 

 ences, however, must not be insisted upon too 

 strongly for they do not always exist. In fact, 

 about all that can be said in particular regarding 

 the differences between the beef type and the 

 dairy type is that a larger percentage of beef ani- 

 mals are better adapted for the production of beef 

 and that a larger percentage of dairy cows are better 

 adapted for the production of milk than is the case 

 with the beef breeds. Individuality, however, is 



