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ing art. Milk and butter records were kept on all cows, his best 
cows when tested having each quart of milk churned separately. 
From his humble beginnings have arisen the principle of dairy 
test associations and the great advanced registry systems. 
Firmness and keenness of judgment were his biggest assets, his 
certainty of himself and oft-time irritation. At the Doncaster 
meeting of 1820 EarL SPENCER said of him, “Wonderful man! 
Wonderful man! He might become anything, even Prime Min- 
ister, if he would not talk so much.” 
