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my eyes again, and I practiced that until I got her so photographed on 

 my brain that I have seen Brown Bessie ever since, whether asleep or 

 awake. She had the quality that we call a stayer. She was on the Fair 

 ground there nearly six months and making more butter at the end than 

 she was a few weeks after they commenced; made three pounds of butter 

 a day. So I called her as nearly perfect a dairy form as can be had. The 

 Jerseys were all splendid animals. The Guernseys were all good; Short 

 Horns were magnificent dairy cows. There was a Kittle Clay. For 

 three, four, five, and even nine generations of the Clay family have all 

 Kitties. 



How did that come about? In 1797, 104 years ago, Mr. Clay, one of 

 the ancestors of Henry Clay, imported from England for milking Short 

 Horns such as they had there. That family has been bred in dairy lines. 

 But do you think they were beef animals. What would you give for a 

 steer? Isn't worth any more than one of the scrawniest kind. But they 

 are splendid dairy animals and had the dairy form. But they got a few 

 Short Horns that were not splendid dairy animals. A Michigan man 

 was superintendent of the Short horn herd and a good talker. He said 

 to me several times, "Now, Goodrich, we are going to show you that the 

 Short Horns are something for the dairy. We will hold you fellows a 

 pretty close run." They would if they had had dairy Short Horns. He 

 said, pointing to "Marchoiness," "There's a cow that I believe is going to 

 I)eat the whole crowd." The cow had a splendid udder and gave the 

 most milk on the ground, and making at that time almost as much butter 

 as any of them. I told him if that cow was going to win in a long con- 

 test, then all my study of the dairy cow has gone for naught. She began 

 to drop in her milk. She ate a lot of feed, but kept going down in milk, 

 and at the end weighed more then 200 pounds heavier than when she 

 started in. She was true to her natural instincts as shown by her form; 

 she could not keep giving milk, but made fat. 



Any questions when I get through, please ask me, but you know I 

 am not like Prof. Haecker here. He could catch on and go ahead. I 

 can't, I am getting old. 



