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trouble for from $100 to $150 when ten months old. Now, 

 gentlemen, there is a dual-purpose cow. Time was in old 

 Shelburne when we could show 40 pairs of cattle that 

 averaged 3,800 to the pair, and at that time every man 

 had the Short-horn cow. He could go out anywhere that 

 he listed and pick out a cow that would make 14 pounds of 

 butter, and from that up to 20. I could do it, and I could 

 purchase steers. We had two pair that brought us $1,400 

 for beef. The times are different to-day. There are not so 

 many of those nice cattle as there used to be . The Short- 

 horn has been replaced by the Jersey, the Guernsey and the 

 Holstein, and they have never filled their place, and they 

 never can fill their place as a dual-purpose cow ; and the 

 Short-horn is the dual-purpose cow, and I shall always main- 

 tain it. 



Mr. J. W. Gueney. I conclude that the gentleman from 

 Shelburne asked his first question with the idea which was 

 in my mind, and that was, whether or not butter or butter 

 fat could be produced cheaper in the fleshy cow or the lean 

 one ; and I would like to ask that question. We may go 

 out to buy a fat, good-looking, fleshy cow somewhere, and 

 we find a good-looking, lean cow. Now, is it more profit- 

 able for us to buy the fleshy cow, — can Ave feed her and get 

 better pay for the feed ? 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I refer you to an experiment in 

 the Minnesota station by Professor Haggard, with two cows, 

 Dido, a beef-temperament cow, and Houston, a dairy-tem- 

 perament cow. Now, physiologically, these two functions, 

 the production of milk and the production of flesh, arc 

 based very largely upon the question of temperament. For 

 instance, to show what I mean, } r ou take the race horse, 

 and he has the speed temperament ; you take the draft 

 horse, and he has the draft temperament ; and you can't 

 get a commingling of the production of speed and draft 

 from either one of them. Now, this cow Dido gave 200 

 pounds of butter in one year, and that is more than the 

 average, and her butter cost 16 cents a pound, if I remem- 

 ber correctly, to produce it. The cow Houston gave over 

 400 pounds of butter in a year, and her butter cost 4% 



