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what he was doing, nor wdiat the cow was doing — or rather 

 what she wasn't doing. In fact, there's been altogether too 

 Httle looking and doing in this man's business. The dairyman 

 has blindly followed without figuring; he has worked hard with 

 his hands but little with his lead pencil, and the dollars have 

 come his way very reluctantly. And as for the cow, the only 

 thing she has done right well is — the dairyman ; she is ''doing" 

 him beautifully. If the dairyman ever gets hold of that big 

 key there'll be "something doing " in that dairy ! He will soon 

 hand over his end of the chain to the butcher. 



The cow is not worried. She is not disposed to look on the 

 dark side of life as long as she can go where she pleases and 

 get a living without earning it. Thus far she has found no 

 trouble in pulling her owner along without his asking any ques- 

 tions, and she now feels sure that her milk record will never be 

 inquired into. She doesn't know about the key within his 

 reach. 



That chain has never galled her shoulder, but she has plenty 

 of gall for all that. She has been satisfied to make 133 pounds 

 of butter fat in a year and to return to her owner a clear profit 

 of 77 cents in 365 days. If the dairyman had 474 cows of this 

 kind he could make from them just one dollar a day! With 

 that he could keep soul and body together. 



But do not mistake this cow for a rare specimen of an 

 almost extinct family. On the contrary she is very common 

 and popular on all our prairies. She is a cow of consequence 

 and not to be sneezed at and dismissed from mind. She is, in 

 fact, a leader; she leads that dairyman (and a great many 

 others) where she will, w^hile she grazes contentedly. She also 

 has a following of one-fourth the million cows in Illinois — 

 250,000 of them have learned bold assurance in using the dairy- 

 man's feed and barn and time and capital for a cent and a half 

 a week per head. This cow is right now doing a great stroke 

 of business in Illinois dairying. The only stroke that can ever 

 get ahead of her is the stroke of the butcher's mallet on her head. 



It mav be said to the credit of this cow that she is not a 



