No. 4.] COW AND THE MAN. Ill 



a (luUar or two (hollars for every one of his cows a year, when 

 he has all he can do to pay his taxes and other bills, it seems 

 unreasonable. In order that these organizations may be suc- 

 cessful, some moans iiuist be employed whereby the charge 

 can be cut down to a nominal sum. I understand an associa- 

 tion was started in Barro, but after the farmers found it was 

 so expensive they all backed out. Perhaps Mr. Smith can 

 tell us about this attempt. 



Mr. John L. Smith (of Barre). This was in the town of 

 Hardwick, not Barre. Over 100 cows were pledged ; but for 

 some reason or other the scheme was not carried through. All 

 they planned to do was simply to weigh the milk. 



Mr. John S. Anderson (of Shelburne). I would like to 

 speak about like producing like. I ani an old breeder, and 

 have had quite an opportunity to judge between pure-bred 

 cattle and grade stock. When you come to like producing 

 like, I recall a few years ago one of my neighbors who had a 

 M'onderfully good gi'adc cow; and from that cow he sold in a 

 year, besides sujiplying a family of five with milk and butter, 

 a little over 500 pounds of butter. He used to carry a 10- 

 pound box of butter every week to Boston. That is the test 

 for me ; that is better than any Babcock test. Now, from that 

 cow he never got a calf anything like the mother. I have in 

 mind a pure-bred cow that we have on our farm. She gave 

 60 ]ioimds of milk a day, and from that milk she made 31/^ 

 pounds of butter. That is no Babcock test; that's the test 

 you can see, gentlemen. That cow's calves proved to be won- 

 derfully good butter cows. We had another cow that, two 

 weeks after she calved, made 201/2 pounds of butter in a week 

 on nothing but hay. None of her calves were like herself; 

 but the pure-bred, mind your eye, that's where like produces 

 like. The cow that's got the good blood in her will transmit 

 it ; the other is just as likely to produce the bad as the good. 



Professor Brooks. You are aware that our president has 

 appointed a commission on country life, and some farmers 

 are quite wrathy over it, and suggest the appointment of a city 

 life commission, and various suggestions of that nature. 

 While I may agree with them that conditions elsewhere than 



