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next day a similar experience came about. The pussy again 

 scratched her. She hauled off and she says, ''You are the — I 

 darsn't say it, but you are the same pussy you was yesterday." 

 This man said that he had an idea that the Kansas winds had 

 an inflating effect on any one that went down there. It was the 

 same old story over and over again, so he finally had to believe 

 it that Kansas was really in the lead of the dairy business. 



I am not down here to give you an air furnace talk on the 

 progress of Kansas, or on Kansas. As I said before, I thought 

 it was more fitting to talk on the producers side, namely the 

 selection of a dairy cow. No problem in recent years concerning 

 the dairy business, had attracted the attention of dairymen on 

 investigation more than the proper type and confirmation of dairy 

 cows or economical production of dairy products. A cow may be 

 considered a machine for the purpose of converting rough feed 

 into refined product, called milk. 



Different cows have different capacities the same as some 

 boilers have different capacities for generating steam from a 

 pound of coal. 



It may be said in general that all cows utilize the food which 

 they eat for one or two purposes, provided the animal is in a good 

 healthy condition. 



The first is for the producing of milk, second, for the in- 

 crease in live weight. Cows which through hereditary tenden- 

 cies and environment have developed a capacity for transforming 

 food into milk instead of live weight are known as dairy cows. 

 Other cows through influences of the same character acted in an 

 opposite direction and have a capacity for transforming their 

 feed into flesh and fat on their bodies, and the milk produced 

 from such cows is of little importance and used entirely for 

 calves, and are known as beef cows. 



Between these two classes we find a large number of cows 

 with some of the characteristics of the dairy cow. In so far as 

 giving a legitimate quantity of milk is concerned with those of 

 the beef cow which produced calves, which are profitable for 

 the owners for beef cows; such cows are dual purpose cows. 



