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you take the Short Horn cow and attempt to develop her milking quali- 

 ties, that just so far as you succeed in developing her milking qualities, 

 you are going to depreciate the animal for beef purposes. I cannot help 

 but think that. You cannot have a first class dairy and a beef animal in 

 the same animal. I know Prof. Shaw is talking of th© double purpose 

 cow and at the same time they will produce a calf for a beef animal. Such 

 a thing may be possible, but I doubt it very much. When you are de- 

 veloping the milking qualities of the animal, you certainly must detract 

 from the beef qualities, and there is no possible way to get around it. 

 I know Wallace here don't agree with me, but he can talk afterwards. 



Here is a cut of an animal that is low; broad and deep, smooth and 

 level. He is an animal on which you can build, and put that high-priced 

 meat that is worth 18 cents and 20 cents a pound. And here is a picture 

 of one that has not got those qualities. Which would you select to put 

 in your food to condense it? Youwant to get as much as possible out of 

 it. If you put it into one animal and get six cents for product and put it 

 into another and get two- thirds more, which is the best paying animal? 

 Why is it? If there are two elevators in town and you want to sell your 

 ^rain, and one will give you a quarter of a cent more than the other, you 

 will go there. I have known farmers go a good way for a small fraction 

 of a cent, but when it comes to feeding that grain, they don't pay the 

 slightest attention to it. They take an animal on which there is no 

 frame to build to put the high-priced meat on. They do that and think 

 they are doing business. I have done the same thing myself, but have 

 learned better now. I found the result was not satisfactory. I had never 

 heard anything about this, I simply thought I had bought the frame and 

 built on it. I thought it was only a question of feed, and that we could 

 put the flesh on any kind of an animal. I did not know that animals 

 had been bred for generations for certain things. You see I thought if 

 you got the frame that you could go right to work and make a good beef 

 animal out of it/ and I paid for my experience. 



Here is a cut of an almost perfect beef type, the celebrated Dot from 

 Decatur; has taken prizes at fat stock shows some years ago. 



