^^ Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



Even the Mouth May Show Dairy Excellence. 



Ever keep in mind that every dairy sire of quality regard- 

 less of his breed will have a conformation just as distinct as a 

 Nod I will make another. He will have a mouth on him like a 

 paunched gopher, a great big mouth. One of our professors at 

 the State University said to me, ''Mr. Gregg, your law is right, 

 different forms of life live on different kinds of food." Where 

 animals including the lesser form of animal life, such as insects, 

 eat the more bulky foods, they have larger digestive tracts, and 

 also by the law of corrolated parts, they will have larger mouths. 

 The strangest thing to me is that sometimes men will disregard 

 such evidence as this and say the thing is a kind of ''fad" when 

 it is as true as "two and two make four." I ov/ned at one time 

 one of those pinched mouthed fellows and the best experience 

 that I ever had with him was when we dragged him out of the 

 stable a dead animal and sold him to a country butcher. He 

 made poor beef and I let the other fellow eat it. 



The Eye Is an Important Feature to Be Noted. 



Here is another indication of a strong dairy breeding, viz : 

 a large full eye — one of the most important factors in the whole 

 list of evidences. Now just see if I can make it plain and if I 

 do not I want you to tell me where I am wrong. I lift that stick 

 by muscular effort, but when I am talking and thinking as I am 

 now I am not drawing on my muscular system. After a time I 

 must go out and take a walk to get the exercise 1 need for my 

 muscles. I am not drawing on my nervous system, and I will 

 feel weary from this effort of speaking when 1 am through. 

 Students know what that is. Digestion is carried on by the 

 involuntary action of the nerve system ; when I talk I call upon 

 my will so talking is a voluntary act, but it is an involuntary ac- 

 tion which carries on indigestion. Some of you men have 

 reached that stage when after you have become exceedingly 

 wearied with mental or physical labor you do not want to eat 

 much. You know you have a horse that has been overworked 

 you do not want to feed him heavily else you will have a case of 

 indigestion. One of the great taxes on the nervous system is the 

 tax of milk secretion and if I am calling on an animal to give 

 me a large amount of milk I must have an animal that has the 

 reserve force of a great nerve system to drive th emachinery. 

 You could not get me into a wrestling bout ; I am. considered a 



