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Prof. Haecker: Other things being equal, I would think 

 the skim milk calf. 



Mr. Plank: I got a heifer calf of Mr. Brock; it was very 

 small, and I let her suck the mother until it was four months 

 old, and after she grew up I was sick of the Jerseys when 

 I came to milk her. 



Prof. Haecker : The trouble was in the manner of raising 

 her; you can not always tell what a calf is going to be, espe- 

 cially if you are not skilled in feeding. I first went into the 

 dairy stock breeding business when I was poor, as I am now. 

 I had to borrow the cow to commence with, the cow dropped 

 a pair of twins, and the lady that owned the cow could not 

 raise the calves because she wanted the milk for family use, 

 and she wanted some one to raise those twin heifer calves on 

 shares. I took the calves and I raised them, and they were 

 beauties; they had exactly the same care, and when they 

 were yearlings the lady came out from the city and she ad- 

 mired the animals very much. I said, "Now, it is time for 

 you to make your selection; you select your calf and I will 

 take the other one.'' I knew what she would do. They were 

 altogether different styles of calves; one was smooth and 

 plump and handsome and silky as an otter, and the other was 

 one of these long, thin-necked, pot-bellied things that nobody 

 likes the looks of. She took the pretty calf, of course, and I 

 took the good one. She was so much pleased that she said, 

 "We must take those heifers to the fair next fall." I said, 

 "Very well; we will take them to the fair," and when they 

 were two-year-old heifers they were both taken to the fair; 

 and the judge walked around them and looked wise and at- 

 tached a blue ribbon to the smooth, sleek calf and poor Euby 

 didn't get anything. I kept those two and the sleek, smooth 

 cow wasn't worth anything; she had only two calves during 

 the eight years that I kept her, and she never gave a good 

 day's yield of milk. The other one was on my place when she 

 was seventeen years old, and was then just as good a cow as 

 she was when she was eight, and she was always good. She 

 was killed then by an accident; she went into a chaff -hole in 

 the strawstack, and another cow came in behind her and 

 hooked her, and she was then carrying a pg.ir of twins, and in 

 some way she received an internal injury and died. 



