No. 4.] DAIRYING. 67 



animal l)y raising them as farmers are apt to raise them than 

 by forcing them. 



Mr. F. L. Whitmore (of Sunderland). I have been 

 reminded of what happened when I was in school. Our 

 teacher said she had seen cows stand on an eminence and 

 admire the landscape. She was asked if she did not think 

 they would appreciate poetry. 



My cows do not lap me, but they do occasionally offer to 

 shake hands with me. I realize that no one man can do 

 everything in this world. While it is good policy for some 

 of you to raise your dairy cows, in the locality from which I 

 come that theory would not meet with my approval. Our 

 dairying is all winter dairying. We have no pastures. In 

 the fall there are auction sales of cows twice a week, and I 

 suppose a thousand cows are sold in Sunderland every fall 

 to farmers who keep them through the winter and sell them 

 in the spring ; and to go to Sunderland and advocate raising 

 calves would be like carrying coals to Newcastle. We have 

 something else to do. We think we can devote our energies 

 to something else, and our sympathies to raising boys and 

 girls rather than to raising calves. 



Dr. TwiTCHELL. A successful dairyman will always sing 

 a song to his cows when milking ; but be careful you do not 

 sing " Old Hundred " to a " Hallelujah " cow. 



One thought, while speaking of breeding stock. I do not 

 know what the custom may be here, but in my own State 

 the fad of fancy markings still governs in the selection of 

 males. They do not consider as they should what he repre- 

 sents. We should study the individual as an individual in 

 selecting a male for breeding, and find what that individual 

 represents in his ancestry. We should know the milk and 

 butter production of his dam and grandam. 



Mr. Whitmore. Returning home from a trip last week, 

 I found a card bearing the name of A. W. Morse, inspector. 

 One hundred is perfect ; my score was ninety-eight. I be- 

 lieve Mr. Morse is here, and can explain. I concluded that 

 any man who did not think my dairy was perfect must be 

 lacking somewhere. 



Mr. Lyman. We can hire our cattle pastured cheaper 

 than we can own the abandoned farms. Speaking about one 



