No. 4.] MILCH COWS. 35 



shoulders ; yet to-day his conceptions are the admiration of 

 the world, and thousands bow in reverence before them. He 

 wrought upon cold marble with chisel and mallet, he painted 

 world pictures with pigment and oil, but he made every 

 touch pregnant with life and inspiration. We are building 

 upon living structures, our tools are living tissues pulsating 

 with purpose. Consciously or unconsciously our ideals are 

 taking form, rising before us as monuments to our skill and 

 insight into life's great lesson, or the unmistakable evidence 

 of our feilure to grasp the true mission of living and find the 

 reflex influence of noble endeavor. 



For a few minutes I want to turn to my charts. I have 

 brought with me to-day photographs of four cows. Two are 

 perhaps thoroughbreds, one of unknown breeding selected 

 from an immense herd in one of the ranches of the west, and 

 one represents the almost ideal beef type of the present time. 

 One cow produced twenty-two pounds and a fraction of 

 butter in seven days. Another has a record of ten thousand 

 three hundred pounds of milk a year. Over there is a cow 

 produced on a ranch in Nebraska and brought east. The 

 first year she made nine thousand three hundred pounds 

 of milk. 



Glance at the three which constitute the dairy type, and 

 see the marks of similarity between them. There are points 

 to criticise in all, perhaps, for the perfect cow has not been 

 found ; but the points in each case are those which mar the 

 harmony of the machine and retard its operations. I spent 

 months and months trying to get a photograph of a cow that 

 I could put before an audience and criticise less than any 

 other. Notice the broad face, the intelligence of the eye, 

 the ample brain capacity and evidence of development, the 

 thin spinal column rising above the shoulder blades, with the 

 high pelvic arch, lacking perhaps somewhat in the size of 

 the barrel, but carrying in her general make-up so many 

 points of a good animal that she is able to make all that is 

 within her centre towards a large milk production. 



Take this cow with a milk production of ten thousand 

 three hundred pounds a year. You see here some evidence 

 of the beefy type in the heaviness of the neck, the straight 

 back and a lack of the high pelvic arch. She ofisets that by 



