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guard against fraud. There would be need of disin- 

 terested supervision of all tests. After some years even 

 larger values would begin to attach to certain blood 

 lines than are now found in dairy breeds, and as is now 

 the case with trotting- horse blood, for example, which 

 has families with many representatives in the 2:10 list. 

 The owner of an animal could better exploit records 

 made or at least verified by an official of the county co- 

 cperai.ve breeders' association than if made by himself 

 and his employes. The county or better the State 

 might provide supervision and thus aid in breeding 

 scientifically and in giving reputation based on authen- 

 ticated records to animals of known superiority. The 

 public has a large interest in animals which do not 

 merely appear superior and hardly pay their board fouc 

 which actually yield better profits. And especially farm- 

 ers, who desire to purchase bulls for grading up their 

 herds, have collectively at stake large sums of money. 

 Six bulls, each used two years, will entirely transform 

 a dairy herd. At the end of the twelve years there is 

 very little of the blood of the original herd of females 

 The projected efficiency of the six dairy bulls may 

 easily modify the profits of the dairy farmer, so that 

 instead of failure or indifferent success he can have a 

 good income. The county and State might properly 

 train, employ and support men to serve as county stock - 

 recorders and judges. 



Still other and better plans might be suggested but 

 the objective point is to secure breeds with larger gen- 

 eral average value, breeds that are not fanciful but 

 n vhich there is more profit and connected with \vhid* 

 is the evidence of superiority overcoming doubt and 

 causing their general use. France found it profitable 

 to own and to regulate the use of stallions, and supply- 

 ing bulls at public expense has been suggested. But 

 the writer has faith that we are coming to a period of 

 agricultural co-operation under which associations will 

 make far more rapid progress. Once our agricultural 

 colleges earnestly enter upon experimentation in ani- 



