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been carried on for hundreds of years, and commence to build 

 where the other man has left off. If you buy a dairy cow that 

 some one else has bred, you buy all the mistakes that the other 

 man has made, and the dairymen here know there are many mis- 

 takes that are made, and the man that buys them will find it out 

 to his sorrow later on. Where it is possible, the foundation 

 stock should be of some pure dairy breed for the dairy business. 

 The reason is this : That if you get pure breed you know what 

 results you will get. I could tell just as well when I made two 

 pure breeds what I was going to get as if I bought yellow corn 

 I know I would get yellow corn. The reason was just simp\»y 

 this : Experience had taught me that from generation to genera- 

 tion these animals had been developed for the one purpose, and 

 the result was that you would get that kind of an animal, and 

 you don't make the mistakes that you did if you are going to 

 select and try to mix up everything. 



If you do mix the different breeds and try to take a mongrel 

 and breed it you will still find there are lots of crosses and mis- 

 takes. You will not be the gainer but the loser. 



I believe that discussion very frequently brings out more 

 than any one can say, and if any one wishes to ask any questions 

 I will try and answer them. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Glover. O : — Did you take into consideration the depth 

 and length of the animal ? 



A : — O yes, but I did not want to take up all day. That is 

 important to a great extent, it gives the digestion. Of course 

 the machinery has got to be there. A dairy cow is virtually a 

 machine. You have got to have a machine of proper size to do 

 proper work. 



Now you notice these pictures are made from photographs 

 and the artist that did them lived miles away and I did not tell 

 him to put on any touches. Did you notice the length of that 

 animal, it speaks for itself. 



