"^^ Illinois State Dairymen s Association. 



intelligent public spirited men, they are the ones who generally 

 get hurt in matters of this kind. The betterment of the stock 

 interests is badly hurt when one strikes men like that. They 

 represent better things and when they have their disappointments 

 and lose their faith then progress in that community has lost a 

 leader along the line those men represent. I would not want to 

 be guilty of that kind of thing. I have thought the thing over 

 and I can not see any remedy for this except that you and I, as 

 men who propose to get our revenue from dairy stock, study 

 stock more and become judges ourselves, or in some cases yoti 

 might have some body who does know and let them search oul 

 and obtain for you that which you want. Life is too short to 

 buy an animal simply because he has a pedigree. I tell you 

 frankly it is a losing game. 



Sometimes people have gone away from a talk of this kind 

 and they say, "That man Gregg does not believe in full bloods." 

 That is not true. I do believe in full bloods but I also believe in 

 selections from full bloods. Is there any heresy in that? If 

 there is, make the most of it. The trouble is among full blood 

 stock that there are saints and sinners and the only way I know 

 of is to sort out the good. Guard yourselves carefully. Some- 

 times if the sinner is plump and nice and has a blue ribbon given 

 him by some ignorant judge, there will be an extra price put on 

 him. 



The Case of Heredity. 



Now let me see if I can give you the law of heredity. Some- 

 times I have heard men talk about breeding and they say it is so 

 unfathomable that you cannot understand it. There are many 

 things that we cannot understand, but that is not saying but that 

 there are some things that we can understand. You and I know 

 that "two and two are four." Some man is measuring the dis- 

 tance to the sun and he also says that "two and two make four." 

 There are some things that we understand and some things that 

 we ought to understand, and can understand, and here is one 

 thing that we can understand and that is the law of the value of 

 the full blood. I will illustrate it this way: Heie is an animal 

 right here that I want. He is a full blood. He has a dam, he 

 has a sire and from those two ancestors begin to multiply 

 rapidly. Now as I stand by the animal selected I will give a 

 brief definition of breeding as it is sometimes stated : Breeding 



