No. 4.] THE PROFITABLE DXiRY COW. 61 



THE PROFITABLE DAIRY COW. 



BY PROF. C. S. PLUMK, COLUMBUS, O. 



Some 3"ear.s ago a young mau named John Winslow 

 graduated at an agricultural college. He was born and 

 reared on a Xew England hill farm. There his father won 

 a living for the family, in the main from the keep of a herd 

 of cows, the milk of which was sold to a near-by creamery. 

 It was slow work, for the jirofits were not large, but they 

 made a living. 



The young man had a love for the country and the farm 

 home. He had received a district school education, and 

 gradually the idea had crystallized in his mind that he 

 needed more education. His attention was directed to the 

 aoTicultural colleo-e. An investia^ation convinced him that 



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this was the type of institution that would enable him to 

 become a broader, brainier and more capable farmer. 

 Ambition, health, work, brought him through college. The 

 four 3'ears passed by rapidly, and once again he was back 

 on the farm. 



But this was a different youno; man returnino- to the farm 

 from the callow youth who had gone out from Rockdale four 

 years before. His intellectual forces had strengthened, and 

 his capacity of grasping and solving problems had rapidly 

 grown. His father soon realized that the young man of 

 twenty-two was no longer a boy ; he was a man Avhose judg- 

 ment he could rely upon. 



On various occasions during his college life, when visiting 

 home, John hadlooked over the herd, and the thought grad- 

 ually gi'ew upon his mind that the cattle in the stables were 

 not what they should be. In his junior year he had taken a 

 course of instruction which involved a term of work studying 



