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sharp discrimination along structural lines. While it may 

 be questioned whether structure determines or controls tem- 

 perament, it must be conceded that there is a large degree of 

 harmony between the two. Interpret structure in its broadest 

 sense, and it covers the field completely. More than bony 

 frame or fleshy tissue is involved. No man will realize what 

 milk and butter production is until he comes to a study of 

 brain development and recognizes how intimately all are 

 connected with structure. Every breeder should stand be- 

 fore his animals able to say as did Pope, when speaking of 

 man, — 



" There stands a structure of majestic frame." 



The benefactors of the world have always been of the 

 nervous temperament. They conserve rather than serve 

 themselves. Trace the history of civilization to the present 

 moment, and each epoch adds increased emphasis to this fact. 



The good coming from the phlegmatic reaches its ultimate 

 end only by conversion through other channels. Such tem- 

 peraments store up, gather in, house for their own good, but 

 never outpour. It is in the realm of active nervous force 

 that one finds the largest channel of benevolence ; and when 

 this is applied to animals it manifests itself in willing service, 

 the giving forth of energy to the utmost, the volume depend- 

 ing first upon harmony in structure and then on ability of 

 owner to appreciate capacity and direct environment. 



Milk, and especially butter production, are the product of 

 nerve force, controlled and increased through brain develop- 

 ment. The dairy cow of to-day, sensitive, easily disturbed, 

 a bundle of nervous energies, demands far difl'erent treatment 

 from the general-purpose cow of other da^'s. We have here 

 an abnormal development of maternal functions, and the 

 measure of the output will be the capacity of the owner to 

 direct through education, and establish through sympathetic 

 relations. A close bond of sympathy there must be, the 

 owner standing in the relation of teacher and friend. 



We are dealing with subtle forces, and large men are 

 necessary to comprehend ten thousand pounds of milk yearly, 

 or five hundred pounds of butter. He who grasps most of 

 the functions of motherhood, and in his breeding and care 



