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have been bred to the right bull. These heifers 

 will do more profitable work for you their first 

 season when only two years old than will the 

 average cows that you will be able to buy. This 

 is my experience. I have a demonstration of the 

 truth every year and I now have seventy-five 

 such heifers on my farm, some of which will 

 drop their calves soon and some of them are not 

 yet weaned. It is becoming more difficult every 

 year to buy good cows. Wlien we grow our 

 heifer calves for a few generations, we have a 

 longer line of heredity to aid us in selecting the 

 calves which we will raise and will learn to 

 look back along the line to the butter and milk 

 record of their ancestors. 



Study the Cows. — We should know the good 

 and bad qualities of our individual cows just 

 as well as we know those of the men we employ. 

 It is of just as much importance and is much 

 easier to control, as we can do as we please with 

 our cows, but I find there are times when I 

 cannot do as I would like to do with some of the 

 men in my employ. We do not keep a man per- 

 manently when we know where we can secure a 

 better one, and yet we go sliding along with a 

 large percentage of our herds unprofitable. Why 

 do we do this? Why can we not appreciate 

 our business and apply business sense to our 

 work? Why not get ourselves up to the busi- 

 ness standards of our merchants and manufac- 



