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would you?" she asked another. He thought a minute and said 

 ''I would put a semicolon after skirt." Then she said to a boy 

 at the foot of the class, "Jc^^'^^'^' how would you punctuate that?" 

 He said, ''I would make a dash after Mary Ann." That is how 

 I felt when I had the invitation to meet with the dairymen of 

 Illinois. 



Now, I believe in this matter of the care of the dairy cows. 



N. P. HULL, 

 Diamondale, Mich. 



There is no man here present, but what will agree with me, that 

 to go back for four hundred years, and considering the dairy 

 herds then in existence, that we have by some method at least, 

 developed a different animal for the dairy than of those days. 

 They will also agree with me that it has occurred through correct 

 selection and mating and through proper feeding and proper care. 



And today, if you and I are to carry on this work, we must 

 do it right along these lines. Then, about this matter of select- 

 ing, there should have been more said at this convention on 



