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From this herd has been produced many splendid animals ; but as Mr. 

 Langdon has not kept his stock for the purpose of making large records, his 

 animals do not appear in the advanced records. The object has been to produce 

 animals that with the ordinary keeping given by dairy farmers will produce 

 the best results. 



One animal now in the herd produced in seven days 21 Ibs. 11 oz. of butter; 

 this on pasture feed only, having no grain feed for four weeks previous to the 

 test, and making 1 Ib. of butter to 20 Ibs. of milk. This, Mr. Langdon thinks, 

 is the true test of the value of a cow without any forcing. 



He has always had at the head of the herd the best sires, such as the 

 descendants of Mink, Mercedes and Pietertje 2d. 



Mr. Langdon removed from the farm to Morrison in February, 1894, his 

 health being such that he was not able to give his stock his personal attention ; 

 but the farm is still stocked with Holstein-Friesian cattle. 



Mr. Langdon's family consists of a wife and five children; the oldest, a 

 daughter, Elsie L., and a son, Porter B., are married, and are residents of Ster- 

 ling, 111. Buel A. is one of the proprietors of the Morrison Record, a paper 

 published at Morrison, 111. The two younger sons, Ross S. and Clark E., are 

 at home and are members of the Morrison High School. Not a member of the 

 family either drinks whiskey or uses tobacco in any form. 



MR. J. W. LA GRANGE of Franklin, Ind., was born November 1, 1865, on 

 the farm where he resides. He moved to Franklin with his parents when nine 

 years old, and was educated in the public schools there, and finished his stud- 

 ies at Hanover College, where he was graduated in 1886. He then took charge 

 of the old homestead. 



That fall the editor of one of the local papers had a Holstein heifer, which 

 he bought for a milch cow, but concluded he did not have time to care for her, 

 and she was purchased by the firm of W. H. La Grange & Son. She was a good 

 one, and since then has made a record of 84 Ibs. of milk in one day, and 23 Ibs. 

 and 4 oz. of butter in seven days. Thus encouraged the firm bought a bull and 

 subsequently picked up many other Holsteins, until, with the natural increase, 

 they now have about seventy head of pure-bred cattle. Messrs. La Grange 

 state that they are in the business to stay, and are making money in the dairy 

 with their cows, and have a good trade, both for young cattle and their 

 dairy products, selling cream in Indianapolis. 



In the show yards the Wellswood Place herd has a most creditable record, 

 and in eight years' showing has never lost the herd prize, but on two occasions 

 to a Jersey herd when coming into competition with them. 



Mr. La Grange is a member of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture from 

 the Fourth District, having been elected in 1894, and re-elected in 1896. 



MR. M. E. MOORE of Cameron, Mo., is a native of Parkman, Geauga county, 

 Ohio, and was born January 6, 1847. He was reared at his birthplace, spend- 

 ing his boyhood days on a dairy farm where were made some of what is known 

 as the " Western Reserve Cheese." He received his early education at the 

 common schools of that vicinity : then attended Western Reserve Seminary 

 and College at Hiram, Ohio, and finished with a commercial course at Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y. 



At the age of twenty-one he " emigrated " to Missouri and engaged in the 

 mercantile business at Cameron, Mo , when, after two years of successful trade, 

 his love for the dairy returned, and he started the first successful cheese fact- 

 ory in the state, and continued increasing it in this direction until he had in 

 successful operation four factories in as many different counties. 



It was at this time that he saw the great need of improvement in the dairy 

 cows of the state, and after a thorough investigation and study of the breeds in 

 1881 decided that the Dutch-Friesian (Holstein) cow was to be his choice. He 

 purchased one cow at Gilman, 111. It was the first registered cow of the breed 

 in the state of Missouri, and Mr. Moore was so well pleased that he purchased 

 four heifers from the Unadilla Valley Stock Breeders' Association of West 

 Edmeston, N. Y., which were just imported and had been bred to the famous 

 bull Mooie ; and in 1884 he purchased a carload from the same asssociation, all 

 of which were imported. 



At this time Mr. Moore saw the great necessity of a breeder being thoroughly 



