no ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



parts are simply a framework to hold the other together. She has been 

 developed for that purpose. By breeding her early, by taking away the 

 €alf, and milking her as nearly as possible twelve months in the year, her 

 milking qualities have been developed. 



On tile other hand, take the cows from Scotland, the calves have been 

 run v/ith them until large enoughto eat for themselves. The cow have 

 then been dried up and turned on to pasture, and she has put the meat on 

 her back, and the milk development is very small. These things have 

 been brought about by breeding and by feeding, and it has been kept up 

 for so many years until that habit has become fixed. 



Now then, for fear I forget it later on, I want to say this: I believe 

 that if a man is going into .the dairy business and is selecting cows, or 

 selecting a sire, he should select one that has had the habit that he v/ants 

 fixed as long as far back as possible; the farther back the better. 



You take the Jersey cow, her habit has been so long to produce this 

 butter fat, that's what she is developed for. You may pick up a cow, a 

 native cow, that gives good milk and rich milk, but if you breed from that 

 cow, you are not as sure that the progeny will be like her as you will if the 

 cow has had that habit back and back for years and years. 



If you cannot purchase the dairy cow that you want, and you want 

 to breed and improve your herd, you want a sire that has an unhnroken 

 record for years and years for a good milk maker, then they are likely to 

 produce better. 



On the other hand, the beef c attle, and we do the same thing. We 

 go back and look at their pedigree, and the record they have as prize 

 winners in the fat stock shows, and the farther back that goes, and the 

 better it is, the more likely we are of getting the calf, the product, some- 

 thing that will be like it. 



I stated a moment ago that our animals are machines or condensing 

 factories; they are intended to convert the food that we raise on the farm 

 into milk or butter or something we can send to market in a condensed 

 form, and keep the manure on the farm to keep up the fertility. The more 

 perfect that machine, the more ec onomical and profitable will be the work 

 done. Isn't that true? 



