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length the motorist, whose mind worked rather slowly, made 

 answer: "Well, up and down the mountain sides there were 

 some very rough places, but the roads were mostly good iu 

 Spain." He had observed only that part of the country with 

 which he came in contact and which he understood. And just 

 so, for years gone by, the farmer has owned, fed and milked 

 cows; patiently doing the chores at regular hours; caring for 

 the milk, skimming and churning butter; hauling it to market 

 and taking what he got for it, without question; growing at- 

 tached to "Bossy" by coming in contact with her daily. When 

 the calves came the steers were vealed, the heifers kept, bred, 

 and milked in turn and loved because they were the offspring of 

 "Bossy" and seemed to belong to the farm. 



Then came the era of separators. Some farmer purchased 

 one on the strength of the talk of some agent or creamery man. 

 And having a good breed of cows, his returns were good. Then 

 farmer No. i, thinking the separator entirely responsible, put 

 away all his misgivings as to the advisability of purchasing such 

 expensive machinery, bought a separator; but try as he would 

 he could not get the "fat" from the milk nor the returns from 

 the cans of cream he had to market from "Bossy" and her off- 

 spring. Then he began to be interested and inquisitive. Be- 

 ginning to inquire into the matter, and through the efforts of 

 the centralized creamery, he was brought to believe the fault 

 was in the fact that "Bossy" and her family were not as well 

 bred animals as is possible to have; that he was daily wasting 

 time, energy and feed on "Bossy" and her family. So, though 

 they are still loved, he decides to get rid of them and in place 

 get a better quality of dairy stock, thereby doing his share in 

 helping develop the dairy business. 



People must pull together for success in any cause. The 

 dairy business was, not many yoars ago, hardly known, save 

 by a few; and it will not grow by the wayside like worthless 

 weeds or thrive in uncultivated spots. It started as a seedling 

 and needs a vast amount of care and constant culture to keep 

 it alive and growing. Of course, there are a great many workers 

 who would give up the struggle rather than take the responsi- 

 bility of its perpetuation. There is nothing in the name; suc- 

 cess comes with intelligent effort. The problem is worthy the 



