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not be sold. If she be a fine looking cow, he may 

 be tempted to take her and run the risk, but the 

 seller cannot afford to allow a cow to go from his 

 stock that does not fairly represent it. It is better 

 to sell a cow for beef for less than she is worth than 

 to sell her as a milk and butter cow for more than 

 she is worth. It is a high compliment to a breeder 

 to have a customer come to him and ask him to 

 select for him from the herd a cow that is to fill a 

 prescribed demand. No breeder can afford to betray 

 such confidence. 



A heifer that should go to the shambles should be 

 killed at home so that the butcher cannot afterward 

 take advantage of the reputation of the herd and sell 

 her for milk prices. The reputation of the herd may 

 suffer unless this be done. The breeder who sells 

 from his herd as milk cows animals he has reason 

 to believe will not do justice to his reputation as a 

 breeder is selling that which money cannot buy back 

 his reputation. 



MILK PAILS 



Milk pails should be made to order, and all should 

 be of the same weight, to make the weighing of milk 

 convenient. One setting of the scales will then do 

 for all the pails. Use nothing but strong, heavy tin 

 for this purpose. Galvanized iron should not be used 

 in any vessel intended as a receptacle for milk. It 

 is rough and difficult, almost impossible to keep clean. 



THE SCRAP BOOK 



Every farmer, whether a stock raiser or not, should 

 have a scrap box and a scrap book. Whenever in 



