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then my views are not worth an3'thing. You can go through 

 New York State and you can find a dairy farm, and there 

 will be four breeds on the farm. Of course they all repre- 

 sent more or less cross-breeds. You go to Ohio, and you 

 find the same thing. You go to Indiana, and you find the 

 same thing. And it is an unfortunate thing. 



To make my point a little more emphatic, I ^vill say that 

 all the records are in favor of great protection against im- 

 purity in breeding. But there isn't a State in this Union 

 but what, if it raised only one breed of cattle, such as is 

 done in Great Britain, would draw the buyers of the rest of 

 the country. If all the cattle bred in the State of ]\Iassa- 

 chusetts were Jcrsej^s, or were Guernseys, or were IIol- 

 steins, — I don't c^re which breed you take, — if this State 

 had a reputation for a fixed line of breeding, you. would find 

 hundreds of buyers coming from all over the countrj- to buy. 

 Why? Because buyers understand they can find that par- 

 ticular breed here. But if 3'ou have a region where there 

 are all sorts of blood, and very little, if any, that is definite, 

 3^ou will find that bu\'crs are more scarce. I hold, besides 

 the practical value, you can introduce a selling value of an 

 animal from piu'ity of blood, rather than otherwise. It 

 costs no more to keep a pure-bred animal than a grade ; and 

 there is no reason under the sun why you shouldn't get as 

 good, and even better, results. 



Mr. Ware. I understood, Mr. Chairman, that the stock 

 that this famous farmer who has been spoken of had, was 

 common stock and a pure-bred bull of good type; so, 

 farmers, you ma\^ improve your product with the cows you 

 have by securing a pure-l)red bull. I admit the value of 

 pure breeding, but we fanners, as a general thing, have our 

 common cows, and we want to improve them. 



Professor Plumh. Please don't misunderstand me. The 

 question asked me about crossing was al)out the crossing of 

 breeds. In this case it is the improvement of the breed by 

 means of a pure-bred bull, — by breeding up, which isn't 

 cross-breeding. In this way you can get a herd that is 

 essentially i)ure bred. This is practical to any one. 



The Chair. Mr. Sagendorph has quite a large herd of 



