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that subject and on proper mating. It seems to me there should 

 be more said at all conventions on these important subjects. 



I want you to follow me closely. If you think some of the 

 things I say to you are not true in Illinois, I would be very glad to 

 have you tell me so. We will talk this matter over. I believe 

 I am right. But you have been attending the same school I 

 attended, and the school was a bam full of dairy cows. If you 

 have observed as closely as I have observed, your opinion is 

 worth as much as mine. So I say, if I make any assertions that 

 you think are not quite true, call my attention to them. We will 

 do it kindly if we can, arid discuss it. If we can't do it kindly, 

 we will scrap it out someway . I love a scrap. One reason I 

 like my wife so well is that she and I are eternally scrapping. 



Caring for the dairy cow. Why? Because we will make 

 more profit out of the dairy business by caring for her. Why 

 unless for the profit there is in it? If I couldn't see at the end 

 of the year I was better ofif for keeping and caring for them, I 

 would get out of the business. Yes, I want to know, I am better 

 ofT at the end of the year, and I also want to be as much better 

 off as possible. 



If I am handling one cow, or forty cows on my farm, I want 

 to handle them so they will turn as much profit as possible. 



What do we want to attain to? Regularity. Comfort for 

 the cow, and cleanliness for the sake of the consumer. Those 

 are the three essentials to keep in mind. 



What do I mean by regularity? Regularity in feeding and 

 milking because simply we wish to get more milk at the cost of 

 feed and we will too. A good friend of mine said that if you 

 are going to do business, do it in the cow's way. The cow ought 

 to be a creature of habit, and she will reach a high standard, 

 when you train her to that regular habit. We calculate to 

 commence milking at five o'clock in the morning and at five at 

 night. I have a man that is as good as a clock. You can see 

 him with his watch in his hand standing at the barn door waiting 

 for it to be just five before he commences. There have been 

 times, of course, when circumstances prevented, and I have 

 always found out that when such circumstances ]:)revented, we 



