Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. ^^ 



little narrow bodies. How can he transmit body capacity when 

 he has got it himself? Carnige bestows libraries but suppose 

 I should promise a library for Marengo, you would want to know 

 the size of my bank account, would you not ? The types of sires 

 that I have seen at the head of some full blood herds is enough 

 to put men on their guard in the purchasing of dairy bulls. 



Where Some Badly Bred Bulls Come From. 



I was in Boston attending the Bay State Fair nearly twen- 

 ty years ago. In the basement of that building was the gather- 

 ing of some of the best dairy cattle of New England and the 

 Middle states. I met there .the son of a very wealthy man who 

 had graduated from one of the eastern colleges and had taken a 

 liking to stock. He was a good stock judge and he said, *'I 

 wish you would come and see our place." So I went and saw 

 his cattle and he said, **Come and see some of the neighboring 

 farms." It was in the suburbs of Boston and he took me to one 

 farm where a wealthy man was carting soil upon the rocks in 

 order to increase his fields. We went into the barn ; it was finish- 

 ed in hardwood and oil and numerous men even employed to 

 take care of the cows that were so elaborately stabled. I learned 

 that this young man had selected these cows himself on the Is- 

 land of Jersey. I said, "I want to see the sire at the head of this 

 herd." So we went out to the ben and looked at the sire. I 

 did not say a word until we had returned to the barn and then 

 I said, *'It would be an aid and help to the owner of this herd to 

 kill that bull, cut him up and feed him to the chickens." He said, 

 *'I know he is no good but these rich fellows who employ me 

 pay me well to go across the water and buy full blooded cows, 

 and I generally try to select a good bull. They will however 

 have a dinner and talk breeding. Now those silk stocking yan- 

 kees don't know anything about the selection of cattle although 

 they have inherited love for the field and they become enthusias- 

 tic over a certain family and nothing will do but they must have 

 a sire from that family. So they buy him and get themselves 

 finally into the ditch and then have to come and pull them out." 

 Then I was hot as I could be because I called to myself when I 

 was struggling to build up a farm out on the frontier I was 

 struck in the neck by such fellows with lots of money and no 

 sense. 



