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Illinois State Dairymen s Association. 



condition, nature will struggle to regain the original type. For 

 nature is jealous of strength and vitality. The God of all wis- 

 dom proposed to have life protected by vitality. We have made 

 for ourselves the dairy animal by increasing blood and changing 

 the circulation of blood from vitality to milk giving. If we 

 stop feeding, caring for and breeding her carefully she will revert 

 and so save vitality. I knew the value of full bloods but I want 

 them of the right kind. It is a good deal like church people, they 

 aggregate the best people in the world, but if you trust every 

 church member you meet you will get woefully left.. You 

 should not expect anything better. When the Great Teacher, 

 that Wonderful Teacher gathered the twelve He received a 

 thief. I do not wonder that the preachers now and then get 

 some stuff in their net that they wish they did not have. When 

 I say that I do not underestimate the fact that the strength of 

 every state of society rests very largely with the churches. 



How "Redemption" Was Selected. 



I think under existing circumstances I have held your at- 

 tention long enough and will do as much good as any other way 

 if I tell you how I came to select that successful Jersey sire. 

 That is a very good and lifelike picture of the sire at my place. 

 He is about twelve years of age. I selected him when he was 

 a calf, a little fellow. He is known as "Coteau Farm Redemp- 

 tion." I had such an absolute confidence in the qualities of that 

 animal and the power that he possessed to transmit what I want- 

 ed, that I had him registered as a calf as "Redemption." Here 

 is the history of his selection. I was in Wisconsin attending a 

 dairy association. After the convention was over a young man 

 came to me and said, ''Mr. Gregg, I wish you would go down 

 and look over my herd." I had been talking cattle there. I 

 said, ''I will stop off on my way home." I went to his barn 

 and spent some time in looking over his cattle. He was one of 

 those men that I could talk tO' very freely; there are some men 

 so constituted that I never tell them what I think about their 

 sires, they will not take it. To this man I could talk plainly, so 

 we went over his animals, his bulls and his cows, we discussed 

 them and I found some very good qualities there, and as I was 

 going out the barn I looked back to get the last glance of the 

 herd and right off in the corner was a bunch of about five calves 

 in little stalls. I noticed that just one of them had stepped back 



