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have." You will not find two holes on each side on half of the 

 cows. Note the philosophy of it. Wet I have read in dairy 

 papers that the milk vein and the milk wells did not mean any- 

 thing* in the selection of cattle ! I know that I am right. If I 

 had time I could multiply experiences. In proportion as that 

 vein is extended you will find the testimony that the animal has 

 been line dairy bred. You show me a native cow and if she 

 is a great milker I will say the veins are about here (illustrating 

 on chart about the middle part of the body). Now when cattle 

 have been bred in dairy lines then the veins are extended so as 

 to avoid the pressure of the viscera as much as possible. 



Of course I looked up the ancestry of that calf and I said, 

 "Young man, do you want to sell that fellow ?" — "Yes" — "What 

 do you want for him?" He gave the price and I said, "I will 

 take him." That sire has been largely used on grades. I had 

 Jerseys, Holsteins, Guernseys and Shorthorns and Red Polls in 

 grade from all good milking cows, and he was used as a sire, 

 and out of that selection I have obtained, as I told you, some 

 cows that make 400 lbs. of butter a year, others 350 lbs. I had 

 one cow that reverted, she was a Shorthorn milker, the beef blood 

 had got the better of her, and I threw her out and all her progeny. 

 So you understand, that do the best you can, the evil that is 

 behind you now and then will hold you back. She was a milk- 

 ing Shorthorn, a grade. 



Home Coming With "Redemption." 



Wasn't I happy when I got that calf and brought him home? 

 I said to my wife, "Lottie, see the bull that I have brought 

 home." Mrs. Gregg has not the love for cattle that I have but 

 she is a grand woman and she said, "Orin, he is awfully home- 

 ly," (and he was homely enough to break a pane of glass) 

 "what are you going to do with him?" "I am going to keep 

 him, Lottie, have him registered, and I am going to have him 

 registered "Coteau Farm Redemption." "Oh," said Lottie 

 "Don't you do that it is sacreligious," and I said, "I do not mean 

 to be sacrilegious, but that word means something, it means that 

 this little fellow is going to redeem Coteau Farm from poor 

 cows," and he has done it. 



I wish that every man in the dairy business could get a sire 

 something like that. I know what it means to raise dairy cattle; 



