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A: Yes. 



Q : And don't you lay a good deal of the increase to the 

 care and interest given your stock, as well as the feeding? 



A : Yes. 



There are three essentials to successful dairying : First, a 

 cow that can do the business ; Second, the feed to do the business 

 with, if she has the ability to convert it into milk; and Third, a 

 man behind the cow that will see that everything goes all right. 

 You take the cows with world records and put them into some 

 men's hands and they do not do any better than scrubs, but I 

 don'-t care how good a dairyman may be, if you have not a cow 

 that has the ability to do the business, you cannot succeed. After 

 you have a good cow, feed her so that she will have something 

 to do business with, and then give that cow proper care. 



One thing, gentlemen, I never like to sell any of my cows 

 to some of my neighbors. They come to me and say what will 

 that cow produce? I will give them the figures, they take that 

 cow on their farm and will not get the results and then tliey say 

 that what I say is not true. 



Mr. : There are just three essentials in the suc- 

 cess of a dairy and that is breeding, feeding and good care of the 

 cows, and weeding out the poor ones. 



Mr. Michels : I am here to talk on that subject this after- 

 noon. Now Mr. Foss has admitted that the carnal thing is the 

 ability to produce milk. It is a herd characteristic. For that 

 reason, to get cows of ability you have got to have sires to pro- 

 duce those cows. But in order to put that ability into a herd you 

 have got to use a first class sire. 



Mr. Gray : I would like to ask what would be the compara- 

 tive value of cows between those who produce 300 pounds of 

 butterfat as compared with the cow producing 150 pounds? 



Mr. Foss : It is hard to tell just what the difference would 

 be, but the cow only producing 150 pounds of butterfat at pres- 



