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Professor Shaw. Perhaps I didn't guard quite as much 

 as I should have done that question beginning with what I 

 term scrub foundation. It is perfectly true that, with a cow 

 whose milking qualities were pretty well developed, the im- 

 provement will be more quickly made than with the kind of 

 cow that I talked about. That is certainly correct, because 

 the dairyman who is seeking that kind of improvement is 

 seeking an improvement in milk-giving, and if he begins with 

 a good milk-giving cow he is going to get there more quickly 

 than if he begins with one that is not a good milk-giver. 



Question. But wouldn't that more likely be true if these 

 cows have extra milking quality from lines along those which 

 you are using? 



Professor Shaw. That would certainly be true ; but the 

 point I want to emphasize is this : ask the average farmer, who 

 has common cattle, to go to work and improve his cattle, and 

 if you can persuade that man that by buying a good sire and 

 using it on his cows in a few generations he may effect the 

 desired improvement, he may do it ; if you tell that man he 

 has got to do away with those cows and then buy his sires, 

 he is not going to do it, Now, it is the man who is going to 

 do it that I am after. 



Adjourned at 12.20 p.m. 



Afternoon Session. 



The afternoon session was called to order at 2 o'clock by 

 Secretary Ellsworth, who introduced Mr. C. D. Richardson 

 of West Brookfield as the presiding officer. 



The Chair. It is my pleasure to preside this afternoon, 

 when I expect the matter of the milk product and the market- 

 ing of the same will be definitely settled. The speaker is Mr. 

 C. B. Lane, assistant chief of the Dairy Division of the 

 United States Bureau of Animal Industry, who kindly substi- 

 tutes for Mr. B. D. White of the same Bureau, who was un- 

 avoidably prevented from keeping his engagement to be with 

 us. Mr. Lane will speak on " Market milk," and will illus- 

 trate his lecture by the photographs and tables on the wall. 



