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are producing their own cows and others must do the sanre or be crowded 

 to the wall by the competition, for we shall see butter produced at a sur- 

 prisingly cheap rate ere many years. 



The Chicago Sugar Refining Company is professedly engaged in the 

 manufacture of glucose, yet they have found so many possibilities in the 

 residues that in place of one product from corn according to the original 

 design they now manufacture over sixty. The day has passed when a 

 man can afford to produce one commodity only. He must also utilize all 

 the residues, and besides engage in whatever lines of industry are by na- 

 ture more intimately connected with his busines than with that of others, 



So here in dairying. The efficiency of cows remains practically un- 

 developed and conditions are such that to systematically produce good 

 cows leads a man necessarily intci the dairy business. If that be true 

 then is the. dairyman the natural producer of the dairy cow. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Monrad: I have no question to ask, but I want to emphasize 

 what the Professor has said about the waste of heifer calves. In the 

 Elgin district, and other creamery men can so testify, it is customary to 

 lay hands on the heifer calves and kill them. It is hard enough to raise 

 the average standard of dairy cows and we are certainly wrong in the 

 killing of calves. 



Prof. Plumb: I want to bring out a point on this subject and to me 

 it has been an important point for a good many years. We hear a great 

 deal about feeds, and at conventions, a combination of feed stuffs is talked 

 about as very important, and yet the great subject of breeding is compar- 

 itively neglected, both through the agricultural papers and elsewhere. 

 You will see ten columns on the use of feeds to one column that you will 

 see on the importance of certain phases of breeding. The low stand- 

 ard of cows that we have in the United States comes from this indiscrim- 

 inate breeding. It is the real cause of the inferior stock we have here. 

 I have been selling stuff from a public institution and it has been my in- 



