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mind of the owner controlling the animal which is by every 

 means and instrumentality leading out of itself to larger 

 conceptions and production. 



Dr. J. B. LiNDSEY (of Amherst). How about the mental 

 capacity of the beefy type? 



Dr. TwiTCHELL. The mental capacity of the beefy type 

 is more sluggish. We intensify that by our mental con- 

 ception, — by our idea of what a beef animal must be. Men 

 in my State who are lovers of the beefy type breed the white- 

 face almost altogether. Such men have not succeeded and 

 cannot succeed with dairy animals, but they reach a grand 

 success with beefy types. I believe firmly in the intelligence 

 of our animals, 



Mr. Taylor. Do you believe a breeder can produce an 

 animal according to his idea? 



Dr. TwiTCHELL. No ; and yet there is a qualification 

 there. I will say this, that the men who have been breeding 

 for the last twenty-five years by the most exact methods come 

 the nearest to it. Poultry raised by a man breeding with a 

 definite purpose for generations can be identified north, east, 

 south or west. But there has not been with our Jerseys or 

 with our Ayrshires that continuity in breeding there has 

 been in poultry. 



Mr. Taylor. Does the capacity to produce depend on the 

 will power? 



Dr. TwiTCHELL. There must be the capacity in the 

 machine to do the work, first. Having that, I believe 

 production depends on educated, intelligent, well-developed 

 power, physical and mental. 



Mr. Geo. Cruickshanks (ot Fitchburg). How early in 

 the life of the animal will it show the type of the dairy 

 cow? 



Dr. TwiTCHELL. Very early. I have said — and I want 

 to stand fiiirly and squarely — that I am not speaking from 

 the stand-point of a breeder, but from the stand-point of a 

 student. If there is any merit in what I say, accept it ; if 

 not, cast it aside, — but not until you have settled the fact 

 that it is useless. I am not speaking from theory wholly, 

 but from years of investigation and comparison, during which 

 time I have been in touch with some of the l)est breeders of 



