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This bill had to do with regulating railroad crossings and intersection!. 

 The wording of the bill was as follows: "When two trains meet at a railroad 

 crossing or intersection both trains must stop and neither train may proceed 

 until the other train has passed on." [Laughter.] We find people waiting 

 on one another in just that way in the co-operative enterprises, and many 

 times the failure of a co-operative enterprise may be traced to that situation. 

 But how are we going to improve and increase the profits of the products 

 of our dairy herds? First of all it is a question of weeding out the inferior 

 animals, then it is a question of breeding them better, a question of judicious 

 feeding, a question of maintaining the health and then the marketing of our 

 products in the most efficient way. Those are the points that I would 

 emphasize and the points which are emphasized by our most successful 

 dairymen in putting the business across in a profitable way. 



WEEDING AND BREEDING. 



First, how are we going to increase the production of our herds through 

 weeding and breeding? We have many illustrations, and doubtless some of 

 you have them on your own farms, where people have made a wonderful 

 increase in the production of their dairy herds by weeding out the inferior 

 animals and by breeding their cattle better through the use of good pure 

 bred sires, even if they have but a scrub or grade cow at the beginning. 

 There has been much accomplished on that line. Thousands of records 

 might be quoted from our cow testing associations showing the progress that 

 has been made on that line. I simply want to cite the increase of one of our 

 herds to bring to you just what was brought about in the course of three 

 years' time. 



In one of our cow testing association herds the production the first year 

 that they kept the record's was 5,665 pounds of milk, 207 pounds of butter 

 fat; a net income over cost of feeding, not counting any labor, interest on 

 investment, not counting the value of fertility returned and other factors, but 

 the net income over cost of feed was $22 per cow. 



The second year, after weeding out the inferior cows and keeping 

 records on them by means of milk scales, the production of this herd was 

 7,060 pounds of milk and the butter fat production was 251.9, which raised 

 the net income per cow up to $53.96. 



The third year in consecutive order these cows averaged! nearly 

 10,000 pounds of milk, and 341.9 pounds of butter fat, a net income over cost 

 of feed of over $75. That was brought about in just three years' time through 

 weeding out the inferior cows, through the use of pure bred sires. 



But the question is often asked: How can one who has what he knows 

 to be a poor herd get the standard of production he should have in the 

 shortest possible time? Of course that question could be answered by going 

 out and buying the animals. We realize in that connection that many people 

 have been disappointed. Doubtless you people can point to illustrations 

 where people have gone out and paid a lot of money for good grade cows 

 or pure bred dairy cows, cows that were known to be good prducers, they 

 have brought them in and in many cases they have been careless in regard 

 to guarding against the introduction of diseases, they have been careless in 

 feeding. They may have the cows but not have the other facilities in the 

 matter of feeding and management necessary to put the herd across on a 

 profitable basis. 



We find many of these people going into the business have the cows, 

 they have the interest, they have the desire to become dairy men, but they 

 don't have the knowledge of feeding and managment, they do not have the 

 equipment necessary, and that is just the sad part about it. 



PURE BRED SIRES PAT. 



To what extent can we increase the production through the use of good 

 pure bred sires upon our scrub herds? To answer that question the Iowa 

 experiment station some years ago bought a lot of scrub cows down in the 

 hills of Arkansas and they were brought d'own to the station. We have 



