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your third a seven-eighths, your fourth a fifteenth-sixteenth, and 

 your fifth a thirty-one thirty-two, or practically a full blood, and 

 for all practical dairy purposes are just as good, and an expert 

 can find no difference between them and pure breds. 



This wonderful cow owned by A. O. Auten, I do not know 

 what sire she could be matched with that would produce an off- 

 spring that will equal herself; I think it is doubtful if one can 

 be found. Take Johanna, it is doubtful if she will produce an 

 offspring like herself. She has one son but it is doubtful if he 

 will produce anything her equal, so the higher the grade the less 

 chances of increasing the production. You can see it in the first 

 and in the second; it is so in horse breeding. Tf you breed a 

 standard breed after the third, fourth or fifth it is hard to dis- 

 cern any improvement. 



I have a chart here which shows 220 pounds of butter fat 

 in a year, first cross gave him 261, the second sire gave 272 

 pounds of butter fat and the third sire gave 384 pounds of butter 

 fat. These are the same sires. The only way I can figure out 

 how he gets this wonderful increase with the same sire is that 

 the cow had been poorly fed. He feeds her up. If you get a 

 good cow and feed her up you can increase her yield 50 per 

 cent. The probabilities are this cow had great producing quali- 

 ties but she had never been fed to show what she could do. If 

 you have the same sire and you get 384 pounds it shows that 

 you have increased the feeding and care. This shows you that 

 feed and good care are among the chief requisites in getting the 

 best in that cow. 



There was a man over in Iowa when the weather was 22 

 degrees below zero had his cows out walking in the corn stalks 

 with snow two feet deep. He did not know the first principles 

 in caring for these cows. Any man that would allow any kind 

 of stock out in such weather ought to be sent to the worst place 

 I ever heard of. 



Suppose for instance you had 30 cows, there is $750.00 the 

 first year, yet you have that penny held up so close to your eyes 

 you cannot see the dollar ahead. That is what they do at the 

 New York Experiment Station. Those professors do not know 



