No. 4.] THE PROFITABLE DAIRY COW. 



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in combinations. There were men about Rockdale wiio were 

 intensely interested in what they fed their cows, but they 

 had not reached the point of learning whether they were 

 feeding profit- producing cows, or not. Winslow senior 

 always watched the grain bin, mucli as did his neighbors; 

 but, until his son brought new ideas to his attention, he had 

 quite overlooked the significance of the individuality of the 

 cow. The Minnesota experiments of Hsecker had interested 

 him greatly. Later on, Professor Beach of the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College published some experiments of the same 

 kind, that he thought were even more telling than those of 

 Ilivcker, Beach had 50 cows, which he divided into tliree 

 groups. There were 35 classed as of the dairy type, which, 

 from the pictures, resembled some in their own herd which 

 John said had the proper shape ; some others had shallow 

 bodies, and lacked belly and digestive capacity ; while 8 

 others Avere smooth and fleshy of t^'pe. These cows had 

 credited to them 103 annual milking records, 80 of which 

 were produced by those of the dairy type. 



The results secured showed clearly and decisively that the 

 dairy type was the money maker. The little pamphlet which 

 contained this report expressed it in figures this way : — 



In discussing this report with his father, John said : "We 

 do not pay attention enough to the character and type of the 

 animals in our herd. There really is not a great deal of dif- 

 ference in the cost of the food which the different kinds of 

 cows ate, but see what a difference there is in what they 

 produce. Those dairy type cows made an average profit of 

 over 120 more i)er head than the other two kinds. Here 

 it states that one of them made 511 pounds of butter, M'hicli 



