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hurts your pastures more than it does ours, so we get better 

 results in that respect. 



But so far as cows are concerned, I can best illustrate that 

 by telling you a little story, a little incident which happened a few 

 days ago. An old gentleman living a few miles away drove into 

 my yard one day (and by the way, he was a son of the Emerald 

 Isle), and said: " Do you want to buy a good cow? I have 

 a good cow and I want to sell her, I have more than I need." 

 I asked " How old is she?" " She is young; she is six years 

 old." "What color?" "Red." " Is she a desirable cow?" 

 ' Yes, she's all right. She has been dry a good long while and 

 she will be fresh soon." " What is she, Jersey, Shorthorn, or 

 what?" " Well, she has just a sprinkling of Jersey and the rest 

 is just cow." So that is the way we are fixed in Minnesota — 

 most of them are " just cow." I regret very much that we 

 have very few special purpose cows in the state of Minnesota. 

 I am informed by good authority that perhaps not over five or 

 six per cent of the cows in Minnesota are special purpose dairy 

 cows. 



The President : — W r e are all aware of the high scores that 

 have been made in your state. Did the factories making those 

 high scores make them from milk brought in or from hand 

 separator cream? 



Mr. Mowbray : — Nearly all the high scoring butter made in 

 Minnesota is made from whole milk factories. 



The President : — Don't you have hand separators up there ? 



Mr. Mowbray: — Unfortunately, w T e have a few hand separ- 

 ators in the state, but nothing I think as compared with the states 

 of Illinois or Iowa. 



The President : — Do you think that one reason you are able 

 to score above other states using hand separators? 



Mr. Mowbray : — These are the facts. We have few hand 

 separators and our scorings speak for themselves. There are 

 two points; you can put them together. To be sure, the state 

 of Minnesota has taken a great deal of pride in her buttermakers 

 and, as a state, has done a great deal to help them, and no doubt 



