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in weight is what I want to get at; whether you have any 

 knowledge of the facts as to whether it would pay to make 

 that exchange. Would it be more profitable than to keep 

 the one cow. We can't always get just a special kind of 

 cow\ Suppose I have one weighing 1,300 pounds and she is 

 going to do very well for six weeks or two months, and 

 then I can sell her say for 3 or 3^ cents a pound, and hnj 

 another, and go on with the other two or three months. Have 

 you any practical experience along that line? 



Prof. Haecker: Yes; after this cow got along to the 

 second or third week I would sell her; |35 or |40 would be a 

 fair price for her, and then I would buy a cow like Topsy 

 for |25. 



Mr. Larkins: Supose in my herd of cows, one has got 

 lame, or, for some reason, I want to get rid of her, and yet 

 keep up my herd, what shall I do? 



Prof. Haecker: You will have to begin to hunt for cows 

 where the distance from the tail to the rear line of the thigh 

 is great and the body deep through the middle, paying no 

 attention to anj'thing else; or else you will have to buy a cow 

 like Ethel, where the is hardly any distance between the tail 

 and the thigh; milk her a few months and sell her to the 

 butcher. Now, I selected a cow something like the first and 

 paid |25 for her; she was a homely old thing, and the farmer 

 thought it was a good sale. I had her five years, and this 

 is her record for five vears : 



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1892 ; 



7.877 



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$ 93.75 



6300 



$12.60 



$106.35 



$43.00 



$63.35 



1893 



10.287 



7.7C9 



12.525 



11.728 



476 

 355 

 554 

 520 



119.00 



88.75 

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 104.00 



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6215 



10020 



9382 



16.46 

 12.43 

 20.04 

 18.76 



135.46 

 J01.18 

 158.54 

 122.76 



42.56 

 34.83 

 39.31 

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92.90 



1894 



66.35 



1895.... 



119.23 



1896 



90.21 







Average... 



10.037 



456 



108.80 



8029 



16.06 



124.86 



38.45 



86.41 



It is an easy matter to select cows if you will shut your 

 eyes to the old-fashioned notions of points, j^ellow skin, fine 



