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we grow and establish nothing without thorough test again and again. 

 That this has been much of our work at the Ontario Experimental Farm 

 is well known, and now I have the honour of submitting what various 

 breeds of cattle there have said to the Province during the last seven 



s what we get, and what we cannot get from each. 

 And first of all I desire to place on record that there exists no such 

 thing as General Purpose Cow, as understood by many of us. There is 

 no breed of cattle that will fill the butcher's stall, the milk pail, the 

 cheese vat, and the butter can, as each should be done in these days and 

 must be done in order to the desired success. That some can do so to a 

 iter measure than others we know, but that any one can, or ever will 

 do so, and aggregate equal to the average of breeds, is just as certain as 

 that cheese is not always cheese. 



M the world's work of these times is specialities, and not the one 

 man fit to do many things well. Agriculture is speedily and surely 

 dividing herself into grain, ttesh, and wool, cheese and butter. 



No two perfect and distinct products, as now required, can be got from 

 anv one breed of cattle or sheep under any sort of conditions, anywhere, 

 however favourable. 



I challenge any one to name a breed of cattle or sheep that gives an 

 innual produce of two things equal to the like class of things, from two 

 te breeds that I will name. This provision of nature cannot be 

 list urbed by all the science and art of man, and yet few things speak of 

 nat Balancer " so beautifully as the well-known fact that when 

 e proper market value for all the points of all classes of live stock. 

 one set of them overtops any other to any material extent ; thus, then, 



nowing what we want, and securing it. 



The 'juestion for Ontario in regard to adaptability of breeds, is not 

 ;tly what characterizes them in their own lands, l.ut what they are 

 1 ai't'-r years of trial in the district requiring them. No inllu.-nc-- 

 so strong as climate; f<>.d with < hitaiio is not a matter of any trouble 

 Imperatively, but the ability of individual luved- and animals to with- 

 md the extreme of temperature is the great regulator of aettling down 



. Of conr>' there are in every breed errtain inherent proper- 

 th:it cannot ! driven out by any form of un^uit ,il>ility - -wh -t her 

 I, or management and n>nsrijin-ntly we ran build upon t h.-ir 



iti'in in a new land, with almost unfailing certainty, yet other 



tiling submit to physical conditions invariably d't''ri<rut ing rarely 



improving. 



