DAIRY ANIMALS OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPORTED 



UPON BY TWENTY STATE EXPERIMENT 



STATIONS. 



COWS NOTED FOR THEIR MILK AND BUTTER RECORDS SIRES NOTED FOR 



THEIR WORTH AS HEADS OF DAIRY HERDS FACTS OF LIVE 



INTEREST FOR DAIRY HERD OWNERS. 



By Prominent Authorities on Dairying. 



What has been accomplished by dairymen in the past, should be the 

 best guide to the possibilities of dairying of the present hour and of the 

 coming years which readers of this volume shall have in which to attain 

 their measure of success as led on by industry and a healthy ambition. In 

 the pages that follow, are records of many prominent dairy animals tested 

 and noted for their excellence as profit makers, and serving to illustrate 

 proven ideas of breeding, use of feed, and value of generally better care and 

 thought than many have been in the habit of giving their dairy herds. 



The reports are from the records of the agricultural colleges and ex- 

 periment stations to which they are credited, and give in brief the results 

 obtained from cows, how it was done, and the reasons therefor. Bearing 

 in mind that the experiment stations strive to make their start where the 

 dairy farmer must make his, and in their treatment of the herd handle it 

 as they know the dairy farmer must do from force of environment or limit 

 of expense, the owner of cows who reads these records, will do so with a 

 better understanding of their meaning to him, and the results he, himself, 

 should be able to secure. 



Good dairy cows and good dairy sires are the ground-work in success- 

 ful dairying, and enough of them to make milk production worth while the 

 effort is the superstructure. The reports teem with illustrations and ex- 

 amples of the best known to the investigators whose reports are here given, 

 and in many are important suggestions drawn from carefully made observa- 

 tions covering long periods of time and a wide range of experiment. Theil 



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