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will make milk out of a fattening ration to a considerable 

 extent, without taking on fat, but, if we feed them in- 

 judiciously as calves or as yearling heifers before they come into 

 the flow of milk, they are going to build up that fleshy form. 



Mr. Pethebridge: Do you know the cause of the failure in 

 the effort to make a dairy cow out of the cow ''Banquet.'*" 



Professor Curtiss: I do not. That cow came into our 

 herd when she was a little past a year old, and we 



her previous history was, except 

 ever since she has been milking 

 she has been surrounded with favorable dairy conditions. It 

 is probable that she was injudiciously fed previous to that time, 

 though there are some characteristics in her make-up that indi- 

 cate an inferior cow in a general way; for instance, the very de- 

 fective fore udder, although if she had not been injudiciously fed 

 and had a higher flow of milk, it is quite likely her udder would 



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