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the herd ; but in this direction and in this alone, we conceive, Hes the road 

 to improvement of the dairy. 



A^ to the adaptation of different breeds of cattle to d airy purposes, I 

 have had experience with common stock, grade Short-horns, grade Ayrshires, 

 and Jerseys ; I make butter ; besides, I do not want a large, heavy cow for 

 my pastures, therefore I have selected Jerseys ; I have seen Jerseys that 

 would have little value for me, but for the butter dairy, the superior type of 

 Jersey cow, I believe to be much in advance of any other breed that I have 

 had experience with. If I carried milk to the factory and pooled the 

 product of my herd with that of others, or received so much a pound for it, 

 I should not choose Jerseys; my neighbors who might have common 

 stock, Ayrshires, Durhams, or Holsteins, would have too much advantage 

 of me ; I could not afford to produce good Jersey cow's milk for the same 

 price. as the milk of the other breeds named, but to go into my own milk_ 

 house the case would be altogether different. And this suggests what I 

 believe to be true, that the factory system is, on general principles, inimical 

 to the production of the best quality of milk, and hence to the breeding of 

 dairy stock characterized by the production of a rich quality of milk. It 

 is useless to expect anything else, for it will not come ; the large milker will 

 be the favorite among those who sell their milk, the rich milker will always 

 be popular with those who manufacture the milk of their own dairies. We 

 may as well drop this subject right here ; I have little interest in breeds, 

 as such, and do not expect to convince anyone who has. I would like, 

 however, to see a radical change in the mode of dealing in high-priced dairy 

 stock. The horse for speed is high-priced, because he has shown speed on 

 the track, together with minor excellency, not because he is Hambletonian, 

 Morgan, or any other stock. It is the greatest folly to pay a high price for 

 a dairy cow, of whatever breed, whose value cannot be demonstrated by the 

 amount of butter or cheese she is capable of producing. In this direction 

 points the true way to improvement in dairy butter. 



E. H. Sewakd said we now have only one mode of 

 supplying the dairy, namely, the cow peddlers, who brought 

 in good, bad, and very bad; this had been going on for ten 

 years; it was the same in the East; they were now com- 

 pelled to come West tor cows, and thus the country was 

 completely drained of good cows; the fact is, all our 

 dairies, both East and West, are deteriorating; we must 

 stop killing our calves; must raise our own cows; it is the 



