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and eight hundred. These Httle heifers are making one pound of 

 butter fat per day. It would bother me now to buy any bunch of 

 cows that win do that, and they will do better next year. I 

 am not in sympathy in buying other people's cows. We cannot 

 afford to do it. 



Prof. Davenport : — They are all inbred cows, you don't 

 want that. 



i\lr. Gurler : — I have always done that wdien I had skim 

 milk, raise my own heifer calves. I was in the certified milk 

 business and all going off the farm and had to buy ; did not have 

 one-third of what I needed. To keep up the business I was com- 

 pelled to buy not that I wanted to or preferred to do it ; it was 

 a matter' of necessity. 



A ]\Iember : — For a number of years have lived in Wiscon- 

 sin and tell of a sample of successful dairymen of that state. 

 Bred a great herd of Jersey cattle. Was fortunate enough to 

 be the owner of that Jersey, Victor Hugo who made something 

 of a reputation in Canada. I mean Mr. Houston. He kept that 

 animal until he reached 15 or 16 years of age and took two men 

 to hold him when he come to serve. The result was to build 

 up a practical dairy herd of cows that he brought around about 

 the country, and if ever a man has made a success in that line of 

 work that man is Mr. Houston. Not only did he succeed in mak- 

 ing butter that took top prices on the market at Chicago, but he 

 could hardly supply the demand of men in Chicago who wanted to 

 buy Jersey cows. Mr. Houston would not keep a heifer calf 

 that did not grade up. The male calf was sacrificed and the 

 heifers that did not grade up to the average. That is the only 

 way, as the professor has said, by which a dairy herd of superior 

 quality whether Jerseys or Holstein-Friesians is to be produced. 



Prof. Davenport : — I do not want to be misunderstood. 

 You will be drawn into this matter of breeding naturally, and 

 when you are do not be afraid of it, don't be frightened out of 

 it. You will want to do some close breeding. 



By the President : — I will ask the Resolution Committee 

 for a partial report at this time. Mr. Kimsey. 



Mr. Chairman. As Col. Mills has been called to leave, we 



