am not proposing anything that the poorest fanner who 

 can buy two good cows cannot do. For the pi-ice of two 

 good cows with no pedigree, and therefore unable to trans- 

 mit tlieir good qualities, he can buy one pure bred cow that 

 will breed with enough certainty to insure a good price for 

 the offspring, and return at the same time a good income in 

 milk. 



I know a man in this county, who, in 1880, bought eight 

 Jersey cows and heifers, for flOO each, and bred them to 

 the best young Jersey bull he could buy for flOO. These 

 cows were of a good family of butter makers, have all been 

 tested, and, although some were old and all were suffering 

 from want of care, the lowest record for one week, on pas- 

 ture, was 9 lbs. 11 oz., and the highest, 12 lbs. 2 oz. Un- 

 til last year the increase of this herd, male and female, sold 

 for an average of ninety-five dollars and eighty-three cents 

 a head, ($95.83). In 1883, the owner paid $200 for each 

 cow for the services of the best bull that could be found in 

 the country, and sold such calves as he could spare of both 

 sexes, last year, for -$375 each. Those that he kept could 

 not be bought for twice that sum, which they would readily 

 bring at auction, and he has laid the foundation for a herd 

 of immense value. 



If it is argued that this takes ready money which the far- 

 mer just starting does not always have at command. There 

 is another way, adopted by one of the best dairy farmers 

 in Vermont. He took 40 young, registered Jersey cows 

 from the owner of a large herd, which cows he is to pay 

 for in calves, 4 heifer calves, 4 months^old, for each cow. 

 He told mc that he had never made so much butter in his 



