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your family along the many lines that you might have your conditions 

 "better, and that you might be more satisfied and content, and really get 

 more out of life and out of dairying than you do. 



That is my object in coming here today, with one other object that 

 I had in view and lies very close to my sentiment and heart. I would 

 like to utter a remark that will be remembered for the bovine mother by 

 the dairymen all over the world, that is of the care and treatment of this 

 splendid mother. I want you to think hard for it is by evolution that we 

 better our conditions and pocketbooks and all the matters pretaining to 

 the material well-being of this world. 



I have two pictures here. One is a dairy cow, and the other is not; 

 you can see that at a glance; you know it; you take it in; you remember 

 it. If you want to know how a dairy cow looks, look at this one. Close 

 your eyes and see if you can see it there, how a dairy cow should look. 



I feel serious this afternoon. I want to say to you that you as dairy- 

 men have but just one thing that you are entitled to in this great dairy 

 business. Just one thing and that is a well bred and well born dairy 

 cow with dairy tendencies. That is all you can hold a cow responsible 

 for. There are 387 things that that dairy cow is entitled to and calls up- 

 on you for. But I will only mention 367 of them this afternoon. 



In the first place, isn't she entitled, if she is well bred and born dairy 

 cow, to a home with a dairyman. I submit it to you. She will be just 

 as unhappy in a home that is not the home of a dairyman as some of us 

 will be in heaven when we get there. 



Supposing I have three cows like this (pointing to the beef animal) 

 in a dairy barn and study the feeds and feed a dairy ration and then go 

 to milking, then I will say, "'What's the matter" and the cow says, "I 

 am, to blame; I am not a dairy cow; take me to my friends, they can 

 appreciate my ability and tendency, and I will be happy and you will be 

 better off." But you take this cow (pointing to picture of dairy cow,) put 

 her in the barn of a beef man, and he goes out there and says ," Why 

 don't you get fat?" She will reply, "I am in the dairy business; my 

 mother was in the dairy business and my grandmother was in the dairy 

 business; let me go home, I will there be happy and you better off." Isn't 

 she entitled to go home; — I submit it to you. — with a dairyman? 



