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sands of people to give me an additional point to those 

 which have so long seemed to me to be the really essential 

 points to be observed in selecting dairy cows — and I have 

 never learned of a sixth essential point! As long as there 

 are only five of these essential points, I am advising you 

 that when we point them out on the good cow which is 

 before you, that you remember them, take them home with 

 you and put them into practice, and remember this: all 

 these five points dovetail together just like that (indicat- 

 ing) and it makes no difference how well developed a cow 

 may be in any four of these points, if she is seriously lack- 

 ing in a fifth point she is not going to be a highly produc- 

 tive, economical, profitable cow, because she is not a whole 

 cow, she is only a part of a cow, and to be profitable under 

 agricultural conditions as they always exist, a cow must be 

 a whole cow. 



She must be well developed in these five essential 

 points. I hope when we have shown these five essential 

 points you will realize that it makes no difference whether 

 you are milking grade cows or pure-bred cows, whether 

 you have Guernseys, Jerseys, Holsteins or Ayreshires or 

 any other breed, the five essential points obtain just the 

 same. When you have come to realize this, I hope you 

 will forget the little details which so many attempt to put 

 into practice when we go out to select cows, and especially 

 when we go out to select sires. 



It is amazing to know how many people interested in 

 Jerseys, for instance, will not buy a cow if she has a white 

 spot on her in some place, because they think she must be 

 a scrub. Many men are so peculiar that they look in a 

 cow's mouth to see what color her tongue is, and if it is 

 white they think there is something wrong, and if she is 

 a black Jersey they positively would not have her. They 

 do not realize that the highest-producing Jersey cows we 

 have are black cows. I could tell you the reason, but that 

 would take too long a time, but I will just leave it with 

 you to look from now on and see if you ever see a bad 

 black Jersey. 



I was down in Louisiana a couple of years, where 



