60 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



To-day the man who is in love with dairy cows realizes 

 that he must go to them with a large thought ; not only with 

 khidness and sympathy and a positive will and purpose, but 

 with large conceptions. Gentlemen, what are we dealing 

 with? An animal who is ready to yield up five, six, eight, 

 ten times its gross weight every year for our profit ; who 

 will waste its body to preserve its individuality. We are 

 talking about intensified motherhood. If there is any spot 

 in the world where a dairyman should feel reverent, it is 

 when he sits down by his cow. If he allows his thoughts to 

 reach beyond the milk pail, he will think of the mysteries, 

 he will be questioning as to the how and why, and touch 

 some of the greatest mysteries of life, — mysteries that over- 

 whelm the man. Yet the solving of these mysteries is one 

 of the duties and the responsibilities that fall upon the 

 shoulders of a successful dairyman to-day. 



No man can succeed in leading out the possibilities of a 

 good dairy cow unless he can enter into sympathy with that 

 cow and into close fellowship with that cow. Sometimes we 

 laugh at these things. Behind it all there is a great question 

 for us. When we realize its magnitude, we will see what 

 there is involved in it. It seems to me as though this 

 thought should make us all reverent. We are realizing so 

 much and we can comprehend so little of what is involved in 

 it. It is along the lines of the temperament that a man 

 enters into fellowship with his cow. 



No man can succeed as a breeder of dairy stock to-day 

 unless he has an ideal. There must be in his mind a point 

 to which he is striving, and he will direct all his efforts to 

 the perfecting of the temperament along that line ; and in 

 doing that, as he enters into fellowship with his cow he will 

 lind that he has fixed these characteristics. 



It seems to me that the lesson is this : we must discrimi- 

 nate between the animals, for one man will succeed with an 

 animal, and another man will fail with the same animal. 

 Some of you have laughed when you sold a cow because you 

 had gotten rid of a poor cow, and the other man makes her a 

 remarkable producer. That is simply an illustration of the 

 thought I have expressed. No man can succeed with all 

 animals. One should gather around him those in sympathy 



