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stricted condition must do so by the use of greater brain 

 power. 



This means the growing of better animals and crops and 

 the making of better products by the exercise of a liigher 

 skill. That this may be forthcoming, we must sit down and 

 fix definitely in mind the worth of each part and the relation 

 it bears to every other part and to the whole. To do this 

 with any approach to justice, measurements must be made 

 by a scale of points, thus fixing value to every part. 



In all farm products it is size, color, texture and flavor, 

 whether onions or apples, potatoes or pears. 



Bring out the dairy cow, and her value is to be indicated 

 not by comparison with a beefy neighbor, but by w^iat she 

 is herself. Not size, or form, color of skin, shape of body, 

 length of back ; not expression of face, or fullness and intel- 

 ligence of eye ; not size and form of udder ; not one of these 

 can settle the question, but each and all. Behind the whole 

 is the individuality of the animal. Beecher said: "Men 

 are like trees : each one must put forth the leaf that is 

 created in him ; education is only like good culture, it 

 changes the size but not the sort." 



Just so w^ith the dairy cow, and to learn the ' ' sort " that 

 we may increase the quantity is the lesson of the hour. As 

 we begin this study we find that beef in the cow, draught form 

 in the horse, meat in the pig and hen are all allied, while 

 over against them are speed, milk or butter, and eggs. This 

 distinction grows upon one as the merits of the scale of 

 points are appreciated. We learn to divide and subdivide, 

 to study functions as well as form, to measure tendencies 

 and individual traits as bearing upon the one object, pro- 

 duction ; and the more clearly one is led to discriminate be- 

 tween a thief and a benefactor, the more rapid the growth 

 of his steer and the larger the returns from his dairy cow. 



Take for an example the horse, the best friend a man ever 

 had, because he never talks back. Without the scale we 

 measure value as a whole, but under it, the worth of what 

 otherwise seems a minor part very often determines practi- 

 cal utility. Size, form, color, ])rain capacity as well as 

 developed brain power, intelligence, docility, substance, en- 

 durance, all of which miijht be named under the head of 



