124 THE EAT OF THE LAND 



" Why don't you try thoroughbred Jerseys ' 

 They'll give as much butter, and they won't eat 

 more than half as much." 



" You don't quite catch my idea, Thompson. 

 I want the cow that will eat the most, if she is, 

 at the same time, willing to pay for her food. I 

 mean to raise a lot of food, and I want a home 

 market for it. What comes from the land must 

 go back to it, or it will grow thin. The Holstein 

 will eat more than the Jersey, and, while she may 

 not make more butter, she will give twice as 

 much skimmed milk and furnish more fertilizei 

 to return to the land. Fresh -skimmed milk is a 

 food greatly to be prized by the factory-farm 

 man ; and when we run at full speed, we shall 

 have three hundred thousand pounds of it to 

 feed. 



" I have purchased twenty three-year-old Hoi 

 stein cows, in calf to advanced registry bulls, 

 and they are to be delivered to me March 10. I 

 shall want you to go and fetch them. I also 

 bought a young bull from the same herd, but 

 not from the same breeding. These twenty-one 

 animals will cost, by the time they get here, 

 12200. I shall give the bull to my neighbor 

 Jackson. He will be proud to have it, and I 

 shall be relieved of the care of it. Be good to 

 your neighbor, Thompson, if by so doing you 

 can increase the effectiveness of the factory farm. 

 We will start the dairy with twenty thorough- 

 breds and six scrubs. I shall probably buy and 



