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economically than any of the breeds that combine beef and milk. 

 It does not follow from that, however, that every man, who 

 wishes to engage in dairying to any 'extent whatever, must have 

 the dairy breeds. On the other hand, I believe we can make a 

 success with dairy breeds or with other breeds that combine 

 milk and beef. 



While Iowa and Illinois are among the leading dairy states 

 of the union, they are also among the leading beef producing, 

 states of the union and there are a good many men who have 

 been engaged in beef production, whose surroundings and the 

 men themselves are adapted to beef production, and yet, chang- 

 ing conditions have forced them to utilize the milk from their 

 herds to some extent in dairying. Many have come to the con- 

 dition where it is no longer profitable to keep a cow a year 

 simply for the calf she raises. 



Now, that condition confronts a good many stockraisers and 

 so there are a good many men who wish to combine dairy work 

 with beef production and for that class of men I believe that the 

 breeds combining beef and dairy qualities are practicable and 

 profitable. Of course, you cannot expect the highest degree of 

 excellence in either direction. 



It is not for me to say which breed will be most desirable for 

 you to use, it is not for any man to say except the man who is 

 conducting the business, because that question can only be 

 settled upon each farm and by the surroundings, the market, the 

 locality, the man himself. 



