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which is sixteen times as much, not to mention the additional 

 expense for shelter and labor, or the extra capital involved in 

 the larger amount of feed consumed by the less economical 

 cow. Surely we need no better argument to show the necessity 

 for further improvement of cows. 



We are in a transition stage, also, in the matter of meat pro- 

 duction, and have need of the most economical consumers of 

 our feed. If we neglect this point, our own meat will not only 

 cost too much, but we shall be driven out of foreign markets by 

 such competitors as Argentina. The first to suffer in such an 

 event would be the farmers, and afterward all classes of people 

 would suffer together. ^ 



The fact of variability established. All this tends to establish 

 the fact that all individuals of the same species are not equally 

 valuable, and plenty of evidence of a similar character can be 

 adduced to show that no two individuals, even of the same 

 species or breed, are exactly alike. 



Of the many hundreds of thousands of people personally 

 seen by each of us, we find many similarities but no dupli- 

 cates ; moreover, the differences are many and extreme. Some 

 I individuals have dark hair, others light ; with some it is thick, 

 with others thin ; now it is straight and again it is curly or 

 wavy. Some eyes are blue ; others are black or brown. One 

 man is tall and slender, while even his brother is short and 

 stout. Some are broad-shouldered ; others are thin-chested, 

 with narrow shoulders. Some have large hands and feet, others 

 small, and a few have small hands with large feet. One has a 

 mole on his cheek ; another has one on his neck or his nose or 

 perhaps none at all. One man has an extra thumb on one hand; 

 another has six fingers on each hand. One is bow-legged ; 

 another is knock-kneed. Here is a hunchback, there a giant, 

 and again we see a dwarf. One is crazy ; another is a criminal. 

 Some are handsome and others are ugly. Some are brilliant, 



^ The student may well study this question and show, by written argument, 

 liow it is that all classes will prosper or suffer together with the farmer. 



