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necessary for the breeding and development of live stock, there 

 are very few real breeders. There are very few men who have 

 taken and bred live stock and can say that they have actually 

 improved the individual. A great many have taken to breeding 

 of live stock, and when they were through with them, left them 

 inferior to the ones started with. They perhaps followed rules 

 of breeding as good as I have laid down to you. 



I wish to mention, as a closing thought, that a man to be a 

 real breeder, a real improver of live stock, must have something 

 besides rules to follow. He must have that rare quality of being 

 able to select out individuals that will produce desired results. 

 Everyone hasn't this quality. Only a few men in the history of 

 the world have been real improvers of domestic live stock. We 

 can't all do that, but we can follow safe and sensible rules, and 

 hope for practical results. 



I thank you. 



ADDRESS. 



By S. B. ShiHing, President Iowa State Dairy Association and President 

 National Dairy Union. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I will confess to you that I feel very much in the air. I do 

 not know just how to talk to yon. I do not know the conditions 

 surrounding you here, but surrounded as I am by all the appli- 

 ances and the apparatus and everything in the rear to make butter 

 and by this magnificent audience in front of me, a man ought to 

 be able to make a pretty good speech. 



I was over in Missouri two or three weeks ago — Jones was 

 there too — we were invited to go over there to tell them how 

 we showed up in the dairy districts of Illinois and Iowa. I never 

 talked to Jones about the matter, but owing to the lack of atten- 

 dance, they had some poor material for dairymen. I told them a 

 story over there, and, of course, I didn't dare tell it about 



