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more on the program, and I expect to do so. I have prepared a 

 paper and shall read it. It is along feeding lines and have con- 

 densed it as much as possible to make myself plain and I see there 

 is another speech to come on the question of feeding the dairy 

 cows. 



Care, breeding and feeding are three factors which deter- 

 mine the results obtained in any line of animal production. 



The degree of success attained in any branch of animal 

 industry varies in proportion to the attention given to these three 

 factors. This is especially true in the feeding of dairy cows. 



In earlier times when our domesticated animals were per- 

 mitted to roam through the fields and forests and to a great 

 extent select and gather their own food, there was litle special 

 development or specialization of function. Self-preservation was 

 the motive, or instinct, and the "survival of the fittest" the rule. 

 The survival of those animals best suited to live under those con- 

 ditions and not those best suited to the needs of man. 



There was little or no development of high speed, choice beef 

 cuts, or abnormal milk yields. Within recent years man has, 

 gradually, by systematic methods, developed such abnormalities 

 as Dan Patch, Aggie Cornucopia, Pauline (34.331 lbs. fat in 7 

 days), or Yeksa Sunbeam and many others which might be men- 

 tioned. Nowhere is this development more marked than in dairy 

 cattle. Such animals have been adapted by man to his special 

 purpose. This great change has been brought about only by 

 changing the conditions surrounding the animals and by care in 

 breeding. 



Along with other changes necessarily came great changes 

 m methods of feeding.lt became necessary to adapt the foods to 

 the special needs of such specialized animals. Dan Patch could 

 not have been expected to develop such speed if he had been fed 

 on corn and oat straw, or if he had been bred without any regard 

 to such development. Neither could Pietertje Second have pro- 

 duced over 30,000 lbs. milk in one year, nor Yeksa Sunbeam 

 14,920 lbs. milk and 857.15 lbs. fat in one year, if fed nubbins of 



