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a8 better product. Are uiy illustration.s applicable? Let 

 us see. 



First we had the cow, whose maternal functions were nat- 

 ural, and the product, milk for her calf, proportionate thereto. 

 Then came its introduction as food for babes and family 

 use, and skill began to be manifested in directing the ener- 

 gies and developing the brain. So down through the cen- 

 turies the open book of progress is before us. The steps 

 correspond with those taken by the machinist, and, consciously 

 or unconsciously, the ol)jective point is always the same. 

 Into the whirl of the past quarter of a century the cow en- 

 tered, and in the rude awakening caused by sharp competition 

 the tremendous energies of man have been directed towards 

 an appreciation of the greater harmony of parts and more 

 complete adjustment of cow machinery. So intense and 

 exacting have been the conditions surrounding, that this 

 problem of structure and its relation to production in factory, 

 mill or tie-up becomes the all-absorbing, all-controlling ques- 

 tion with the manufacturer. 



Remember that word for it has a deep significance. The 

 farmer who feeds the raw products, grass, hay, grain, etc., 

 to the cow, manufactures milk, the cow being the machine. 

 His neighbor feeds cotton, wool, and sometimes, I fear, shodd}' 

 to his machine, and manufactures cloth. The only difference 

 I see between the two is that the farmer's machine is a co- 

 laborer with him, and also that he cannot successfully make 

 good milk from shoddy. 



The cow standing before you with a yearly capacity of ten 

 thousand three hundred pounds of milk differs from her early 

 maternal ancestor in two ways, — harmony of adjustment of 

 parts of machine and developed brain capacity, the result of 

 education, this being the influence of the objective mind of the 

 owner on the subjective mind of the cow. Every step taken 

 in this study of animal structure confirms more strongly the 

 fact that mental influences sent out, or going forth from the 

 breeder, bring results in the individual animals of the breed. 



Right here I pause to indicate what seems to be a fact lost 

 sight of, — that the will and wish of the breeder must be 

 active with the care-taker of the animals, else to a greater or 

 less degree that will is thwarted. If a dairyman, seeking to 



