No. 4.] THE PROFITABLE DAIRY COW. 87 



Mr. Sagendorph. As I understand Mr. Anderson, he 

 claims that at the end he will get more from a dual pur- 

 pose cow than he can from any other. I will admit that 

 when you get through with a Guernsey or a Jersey cow you 

 have hard work to sell her, — the butchers won't buy her. 

 The meat is so yellow, the butchers tell me, that people 

 won't buy it, and therefore you have to get rid of the cow 

 otherwise. 



jVIr. Vax Normax (of AVest Newton). I think we have 

 wandered a little from the subject. I would like to say a few 

 words on the general subject of the practical dairy cow. Pro- 

 fessor Plumb in his very agreeable narrative told how one 

 young man produced certain results by choosing a bull from 

 stock recognized as being of a t}'pe that brought forth })ro- 

 ducers, thus securing the results he was after. In an experi- 

 ence commencing some few years ago, I was impressed by the 

 desirability of following blood lines. I was sent to buy a 

 herd of Jerseys, and I never had bought a Jersey cow in the 

 world ; what little experience I had was Avitli the Holsteins. 

 I Avent into a noted herd in Pennsj^lvania and bought 20 

 animals, and they averaged 6,844 pounds })er cow the first 

 year. Every one of those cows was selected because of 

 resemblance to those of their own family which had been 

 producers. If you want to make a selection of heifers which 

 will be big producers, choose practical dairy cows that most 

 resemble in type and in family characteristics the best of 

 their connection. If you are going to breed the practical 

 dairy cow, you must learn which animals of your selection 

 carry most uniformly the quality you want, and in seeking 

 that quality you will find that certain families can be de- 

 pended upon because of their resemblance. Wherever you 

 find one that has the strongest resemblance to the best pro- 

 ducers in that family, you will usually find what you want. 



That is the trouble in cross-breeding. You will find in 

 one family the distinctive characteristics that more often 

 accompany the good quality that you want, goes with a cer- 

 tain shai)ed head, or face, or horn, or some other distinctive 

 feature, and in another breed you find some other (juality. 

 Now, you mix those two, and you cause, it seems, almost a 



