Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. ^^ 



men who are absolutely ignorant; all they do is to buy an ani- 

 mal as a registered animal, breed him, report their increase and 

 then sell them. Then there is another per cent, larger than I 

 had expected to find, who are purely jockeys in the handling of 

 pure bred cattle. They are unscrupulous men. They know the 

 stuff they sell is not worth what they ask for it. 



I had one man in the state of New York assume to object 

 to that proposition, I replied that I could call the name of one 

 of the breeders in his own state, i. e. New York, who was abso- 

 lutely unscrupulous, and I added that I could prove it before any 

 court in the United States. The party raised no further objec- 

 tions. 



That is one of the propositions that you are up against 

 gentlemen. I am a man of peace, I love right things and happy 

 things and loving things, but some times it is a good thing to 

 sow a seed of hatred ; hate the devil and all his works, hate it 

 with a perfect hatred, and sometimes it is hard to draw the line. 

 I do positively hate poor dairy breeding, that is the way I feel 

 about it, and I would just as soon you would rece^'ve some of that 

 contagion as not. 



Good and Bad Cows. 



First, I am going to tell you why I say the important factor 

 with you is better cows, not feed, and when I get through I want 

 you to tell me whether I am right or not. I am going to select 

 two cows, let them be before you in mind. You know there is 

 only one way to feed. You may call that feed worth 50c or 60c 

 a bushel, but you know that the two cows have different charac- 

 teristics. With one cow the feed goes this wav (referring to 

 chart, e. e. to waste). You understand me? It goes out as 

 manure. The kind of cow that I keep and know^ how to breed, 

 after a struggle of thirty years, is the cow that throws the proper 

 waste where it should go and throws the other amount here in 

 the udder. I do not care if corn is 50c a bushel, she will pay 

 for it if properly fed. In other words the good cow makes a 

 good market for high priced feed. She will consume the rough- 

 age and separate it as it ought to be, and preserve and save all 

 of the food as it should be saved and you will get good returns 

 for all of it. You need not be scared by high feed. You do not 

 think that 50c feed would scare me when I feed it to 400 lb. 

 cows? They do not all give that amount but a cow has to give 



