FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION - 27 



they mean and what is the logical thing to do in order to 

 accomplish the result for which the figures were compiled.- 



About the only analysis I ever heard of testing figures 

 is that this cow lost money, this one made money and this 

 one should be killed. That doesn't mean that testing cows 

 should not be done. I think that when the year is over we 

 should make a very careful analysis of our figures and find 

 out whether the cow should be killed or the man who owns 

 her. 



There are a lot of purbred cows who, in their first 

 year, or perhaps the second year or still another year, may 

 not be very highly productive, while cows standing right 

 alongside of them will show highly satisfactory results. 

 But the next year their positions may be reversed. These 

 are things that should be taken into consideration. The 

 great value of these figures which result from the testing 

 association is to show ua that there is something wrong and 

 the first thing we will probably find is that we haven't been 

 feeding the cows properly. 



I do not believe for a minute but that our average pro- 

 duction can be doubled if every man who owns cows wishes 

 to find out what the situation is and then go ahead and get 

 busy doing the things that are necessary to make those cows 

 produce what they are capable of producing. 



I bought the poorest cow in a testing association and I 

 was told she was absolutely the poorest cow in the world. 

 However, I took her home simply as an experiment. The 

 very next year she made 593 pounds of butter fat. In spite 

 of the fact that this cow by her records had been proven the 

 poorest cow in the world, her looks defied the records. Then 

 what was wrong? The answer is: she was not fed and 

 cared for properly. 



Now I am relating this little incident to you men and 

 women to try to bring out what the great value of these 

 records are. These records point to the fact that certain 

 cows should go to the butcher. How can we ever get over- 

 production if we will not do that which is necessary to 

 permit our cows to produce, but send them to the butcher? 



I believe we should tackle this proposition from a 



