124 THE FAT OF THE LAND 
«Why don’t you try thoroughbred Jerseys’ 
They’ll give as much butter, and they won’t eat 
more than half as much.” 
“You don’t quite catch my idea, Thompson. 
I want the cow that will eat the most, if she is, 
at the same time, willing to pay for her food. I 
mean to raise a lot of food, and I want a home 
market for it. What comes from the land must 
go back to it, or it will grow thin. The Holstein 
will eat more than the Jersey, and, while she may 
not make more butter, she will give twice as 
much skimmed milk and furnish more fertilizer 
to return to the land. Fresh skimmed milk is a 
food greatly to be prized by the factory-farm 
man; and when we run at full speed, we shall 
have three hundred thousand pounds of it to 
feed. 
«JT have purchased twenty three-year-old Hol- 
stein cows, in calf to advanced registry bulls, 
and they are to be delivered to me March 10. I 
shall want you to go and fetch them. I also 
bought a young bull from the same herd, but 
not from the same breeding. These twenty-one 
animals will cost, by the time they get here, 
$2200. I shall give the bull to my neighbor 
Jackson. He will be proud to have it, and I 
shall be relieved of the care of it. Be good to 
your neighbor, Thompson, if by so doing you 
can increase the effectiveness of the factory farm. 
We will start the dairy with twenty thorough- 
breds and six scrubs. I shall probably buy and 
