No. 4.] THE PROFITABLE DAIRY COW. 91 



right selections. Our speaker has clearly shown this after- 

 noon that, with the material we have at hand and the bul- 

 letins that we have on this subject, the })resent generation is 

 head and shoulders above the former one in beino- able to 

 pick out that type ; and if we set up the type that we know 

 is valuable, the cow, the heifer, or the calf, then we are on 

 the sure road to success. We have had a herd, I want to 

 say, personally, and for twenty-five years have made it a 

 cast-iron rule never to have a male in the herd that was not 

 from a cow with a good record for milk, — say from 20 to 30 

 quarts ; the dam must have been a 20 or 30 quart cow, and 

 one that had good records for quality. So that, after these 

 years, the individuals in my herd are as much alike as a flock 

 of hens are alike to a feather, and it has paid us in that way. 



One more thing I want to say, — I looked over into one 

 of Mr. Anderson's pens, and saw seven animals, and Mr. 

 Anderson said, " There is $700 for me." I got into that pen 

 and picked out one of those animals, and brought him home, 

 for $100. The neighbors all said a fool and his money were 

 soon parted ; but the first four heifers brought almost $200, 

 and the bull calves that were sent all over the State paid me 

 for him three or four times over, and after four years I sold 

 him for just $200. That is just a simple incident, to show 

 that Mr. Anderson breeds good stock. lie wrote me that 

 the dam of this bull which I bought had given 30 quarts of 

 milk in twentj^-four hours, and had niade a little over 20 

 pounds of butter in seven days. It pays us to get those 

 animals, and it pays us to study, so that we can carry that 

 type and be able to pick out the profitable ones. 



Ex-Secretary Sessions. I noticed with a great deal of 

 pleasure that the lecturer did not attempt to "boost "an}" 

 one breed. It was the principle that he was advocating 

 here ; and I believe that an}^ of us farmers who wish to im- 

 prove a breed of cows can do it along the line of our taste. 

 If our taste runs to Guernseys, we can seek among the 

 Guernseys for a sire to build up our dairy herd, but we nmst 

 look for the dairy t}'pe. If our taste runs to the Jersey, the 

 same coiu:se is to be pursued ; we must go to the Jersey herd 

 and look for this dairy type. If we have a preference for 



