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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Here two years ago, one of the professors from the Wisconsin Ex- 

 periment Station came to Fort Atkinson. He looked over the herd of 

 cows. Afterwards he said: "This is the most surprising sight I have 

 ever seen; they look as if they were all cast in one mould.' That is the 

 dairy form. 



I have been studying for a great many years the form of the dairy 

 cow. I have spent a good share of my time in the stables, and I find pretty 

 good company there, too. Sometimes men come to my house and say to 

 my wife, "Is Goodrich at home?" She tells them they will probably find^ 

 me in the cow stable, that is where he finds his most congenial society. 

 I was learning all the time. You will find that form running through all 

 good herds. 



I am not saying a single word about breed. It is the form that indi- 

 cates the dairy cow. The work that an animal or a man is put to has 

 something to do with the shaping of him. I am not shaped like every 

 other man. The work that the cow has been doing has fashioned her into 

 shape — been doing it for generations. 



In 1893 we had a dairy contest here at Chicago at the World's Fair. 

 There were prizes offered for the breed that would produce the greatest 

 net profit. They were all determined to make the best showing. The 

 Jersey men spent $30,000 in finding the 25 cows that were going to be 

 entered in that contest. They got one from Texas, another from Maine; 

 they came from all over. The superintendent, Mr. Fuller, heard that 

 there was a cow that would produce 800 or 1000 pounds of butter a year, 

 and he would go and see the cow. If he thought that she was worth, 

 then the cow was tested, and this was all done a year before, so they 

 could be fresh at the time the Fair commenced. Fifty cows of that 

 breed were brought to Chicago, and then they were tested again, and they 

 kept the twenty-five best. 



The other men followed the same idea and plan. I tell you it was a 

 great sight. I believe it could not be beat. I was there and spent quite a 

 little time, and I says, "There is your chance, a chance you will never 

 have again in your life to study the dairy cow." And I want to tell you 



