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the side would be worth from 5 to 10 cents. A pound of butter 

 would be worth from 20 to 40 cents. But, some one says, the 

 cost of producing the pound of butter, aside from the feed, is 

 more than that of producing the pound of beef. This is true, 

 but the difference in cost of production is no way commensu- 

 rate with the difference in the value of the product. Now. if T 

 recommended the cow to you, and ^topped there, it would not 

 be quite fair, for it is true that many men are keeping cows 

 that do not return to their owners the first cost of the feed 

 they consume. This, however, is not the fault of dairying, 

 but the fault of the man keeping the cow^s. He is not using 

 enough intelligence and painstaking care to know the essentials 

 for success of the business that he is in, and then adopting 

 these essentials. There are just three essentials in profitable 

 dairying. These are, first a good cow; second, good feeding; 

 third, good care. There are some cows that have the natural 

 ability to take feed and profitably convert it into milk. There 

 are other cows that have not this natural ability to take feed 

 and profitably convert it into milk. I have said that in Mich- 

 igan there are three kinds of cows. This, I think, is also true 

 in j\[assachusetts. One kind of eow" takes her feed, digests 

 and assimilates it, and because of her iidiorn tendency, predis- 

 position, temperament, or call it the law of nature, if you will, 

 she converts this digested feed into beef. This is a beef cow. 

 Another cow, because of her temperament, converts her di- 

 gested feed into milk. This is a dairy cow, and I care not 

 what her breeding or color may be. I just want to know that 

 her temperament prompts her to convert that feed into milk, 

 I would advise the farmers to tie to this sort of cow, for, in 

 my judgment, she will do the farmers of Massachusetts more 

 good than any other animal that walks on four legs on the 

 farms of Massachusetts. Then there is another kind of cow, 

 that takes her feed, digests and assimilates it, and God only 

 knows what she does with it. She neither makes milk nor 

 beef of it, and she is of no value to any one anywhere and 

 should be gotten rid of. 



Time and space will not permit me giving a talk here upon 

 feeding and the care of cows, but successful fiinii ami daiiy 

 management necessitates a man knowing how to do these 



