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will give you a few pictures on the screen. I will try and not speak too 

 long. A short time ago I was attending a meeting, and a man got up 

 and he talked over two hours and when he finally quit, a man said that 

 the speaker reminded him of a horse he had, they had to pull his nose to 

 make him drink and pull his tail off to make him stop. 



In discussing this important factor of the dairy industry, I wish to 

 make it plain at the beginning that I am not the champion of any partic- 

 ular breed of cows; my knowledge of the different strains or types of 

 dairy cows is not sufficient to enable me to enlarge on the advantages of 

 of a long horned cow over a short irorn, neither do I pretend to say that a 

 Guernsey, a Jersey, a Holstein, or an Ayrshire is the best cow for a cream- 

 ery patron to keep. My information on the cow question is confined to 

 observations made at some of the 95 farms that are supplying milk to the 

 Wisconsin Dairy School. 



In visiting these farms during the past seven years, I have not at- 

 tempted to train myself so that I might become sufficiently expert to 

 tell a farmer all about the different cows in his herd by simply looking 

 them over while sitting in a buggy in the highway, but my efforts have 

 all been directed 1 towards trying to induce the farmer to keep a record 

 of what his cows are doing. This it seems to me is going to help him, 

 and I am afraid if I tried to discuss the points of a cow with a patron, that 

 I would be in the plight of Jth<Sj professor of agriculture who was once talk- 

 ing with a young lady and she suddenly turned on him and asked : "Pro- 

 fessor, can you tell a good cow?" The professor, without any hesitation, 

 replied: "Why, yes, I think I can." "Then what would you tell her?" 

 said the young lady. I did not wait to hear the rest of this interesting 

 conversation, but without further delay I wish to say that my position on 

 the cow question is expressed in the text, "By their fruits ye shall know 

 them." If a cow gives milk and butter enough in a year to pay lor her 

 keep and a profit besides, she is worth telling something of a story about, 

 but if her production is less than the cost of her food then the less told 

 about her the better; it is encouraging, however, once in a while to hear 



