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work ; just because a farm has the reputation of keeping- 

 twenty head of stock, the owner does not feel obliged to 

 keep that amount of stock, when in reality he has onl}- feed 

 enough to keep ten well. Knowledge is power, but the 

 mere possession of knowledge is not power ; but knowledge 

 with action is power, — it is essential to success in any 

 business to have knowledge. Senator Hoar, in his advice 

 to a young lawyer, recommended that he study continually, 

 not allowing his practice to interfere with his deeper re- 

 search into law. Such advice is applicable to the producer 

 of milk, who should ever be anxious to raise his profession 

 to a high standard. 



On no individual of the animal kingdom has the dominant 

 hand of man left so clear and lofty a record, and in no case 

 has nature been more generous and helpful, than in the 

 gradual development of the cow. The lowlands of Holland 

 have given us the generous milker, the Holstein ; Switzer- 

 land and Scotland, the mountain breeds ; and the Channel 

 Islands, the delicate, fawn-like Jerse3^ When we think of 

 what man started with generations ago, — a long-horned, 

 wild-ej^ed, long-legged, light-quartered animal of the bovine 

 tribe, — it is then that we commence to realize the great 

 work man has been engaged in all these years, until now 

 we have such maarnificent animals as are exhibited at our 

 State fairs and at our national exhibitions. It has from the 

 start been a survival of the fittest, and we are in all proba- 

 bility yet far from the finish. 



It is a growing tendency among dairj^men of New Eng- 

 land to work their herds into pure breed cattle. Some 

 commence with only the bull pure breed ; it will not be 

 long before they will want a registered cow to match, then 

 one or two more ; soon they will have a pure-bred herd. 



If the breed chosen is the right one for the object sought, 

 it will soon be found that the more of this blood the herd 

 contains the better. Starting with half-breed cows came 

 the offspring of pure-bred bulls and dams of mixed and un- 

 certain blood ; the next grade, three-fourths pure, will prove 

 better dairy stock, if the bull is what he should be and the 

 increase has been culled. Successful dairying has proved 



