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means at maturity that two home-bred cows are equal to three 

 that are bought. 



If breeding means anything anywhere it means that the 

 cow's quahty of large milk production is likely to be transmitted 

 to her daughter. There is no other animal from which such an 

 absolute and complete record of performance can be secured as 

 from the dairy cow. Shall the value of these records to her 

 progeny be thrown away by not saving the good heifer calves? 



Nobody else has so many natural advantages as the dairy- 

 man for raising good heifers, and nobody else has the dairyman's 

 interest in it, or is likely to succeed so well at it. Any other 

 principal method of replenishing the herd is sheer wastefulness 

 of great natural advantages. 



Absolutely Proved. 



Every man who has had extended experience or observa- 

 tion in this matter will agree that the pure-bred dairy sire from 

 high-producing dams, and which is also a good individual, is of 

 peculiar value and great economy in building up the herd. The 

 records of dairy breeding have proved it conclusively a thousand 

 times over. No man who studies the facts can doubt it. The 

 evidence is to be seen in the heifers of every such sire, and in 

 their contrast w^ith heifers lacking such parentage. 



The great difference between the good and the poor cow 

 cannot be estimated. The study of these ten years reveals this 

 fact. I cannot close without referring again to the great con- 

 trast between the good and poor cows and what this really means 

 to the dairyman's pocketbook and the life of his whole family. 



Why Dairying Frequently Doesn't Pay. 



Americans don't take to the idea of chains and slavery, but 

 many an Illinois dairyman has unconsciously drifted into the 

 condition of the man in the picture. He is not chained to a 

 fellow prisoner or to a post, but to a common (altogether too 

 common) brute — to a worthless wilful cow. 



He doesn't know where he is going, he simply follows the 

 cow. That's how he got tied up to this creature ; he didn't know 



