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large nostril or she does not get the fresh air into her 

 lungs to purify her blood. There is no doubt that the cow 

 with the large nostril gets more oxygen to purify her blood 

 than the cow with the small nostril. 



We ask that the top of the cow be deep from the top 

 of the shoulder to the floor of the chest, and well sprung 

 in the front rib, allowing plenty of room for the respiratory 

 organs, the heart and lungs. That cow which is shallow 

 from the top of the shoulder to the floor of the chest may 

 give a lot of milk when she freshens and for thirty or sixty 

 or ninety days, but gradually she decreases in milk flow 

 and becomes unprofitable. After six or seven months she 

 goes dry and shows a loss rather than a profit until she 

 freshens again. So if our cows are to be profitable, live 

 long and be healthful, they should have nostrils that are 

 large, and chests that are deep and well sprung ribs. 



The second point is capacity. A lot of people ooject 

 to having their cow called a machine, and I realize that a 

 cow is much more than a machine. She is a living, animate 

 object. She responds to kindness, good care, feed and love, 

 more than a machine. Nevertheless, when we get right 

 down to the basic facts, your cows are machines that are 

 placed on your farms — in your factory, if you please — for 

 identically the same purpose that machines are placed in 

 the factory under the big smokestacks in the cities; for 

 converting promptly, economically and profitably the raw 

 materials you grow in your fields, the grains and grasses, 

 into the finished commodities, milk and butter fat, and that 

 cow which can eat the most feed in a given specified time 

 and manufacture it economically and profitably into milk 

 and butter fat is the most profitable cow for you to have. 



And then, when you have such a cow the most pro- 

 fitable way to utilize her is to give her every bit of the 

 right kind of raw material that she possibly will utilize 

 economically and profitably without interfering with her 

 usefulness and health. 



The indications of capacity are, first, the large mouth. 

 Any animal with a large mouth is a good feeder. Any ani- 

 mal with a small mouth is a poor feeder. The man who 



