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higher prices for bulls sold to dairy farmers. Cows 

 thus bred would have a sale at higher prices to breeders 

 and dairy farmers depending on purchasing their milch 

 cows would soon learn to pay for pedigree. Men 

 would learn to develop breeders not merely for the 

 high-class dairymen but for the average good dairy 

 farmer. 



Such an association could have system in its sales. 

 A monthly county or township sale day might be found 

 useful. Auctioneers, trained in displaying performance 

 records, could greatly assist in securing long prices at 

 State fairs and at other large sales. Auctioneers are 

 hungering for such record pedigrees. The study of 

 statistical pedigrees at schools of agriculture would take 

 on a new meaning if each State had numerous county 

 breeds of domestic animals under some such plan as 

 suggested. Schools of animal judging would become 

 more truly schools of breeding. The men who would 

 embark in such a co-operative enterprise would find it 

 necessary to invest in a rather long-time proposition. 

 But the females purchased at rather large prices would 

 serve well in the dairy and would pay the earlier ex- 

 penses. The bulls besides serving the cows especially 

 selected, would be very valuable to serve other regis- 

 tered and also grade cows. There would be some in- 

 convenience to farmers in conforming to the rules of an 

 association, but on the other hand there is an advantage 

 in learning how to co-operate. Men grow under disci- 

 pline, and such an association would serve as a most 

 valuable school to develop men. The whole community 

 would be united in a delightful way to accomplish a 

 worthy object. The members would soon feel a great 

 pride in the whole enterprise. Rivalry with similar as- 

 sociations elsewhere breeding Jerseys, Holsteins, beef 

 Short-horns or dual-purposes cattle would have its 

 value both in adding zest to the work and in insuring 

 better results. The criticisms of our rivals often serve 

 to best educate us as to how to excel. 



In all this the large expense and effort are warranted 



