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g"et in out of that field, get into a reasonably warm barn thai, 

 was well ventilated and clean and spend an hour milking. 



Until a fellow begins to feel an interest in a cow and hi? 

 young stock to the extent that he finds actual satisfaction in- 

 whether or not this cow will give tonight one pound more milk 

 than she did the night before, he will not reach to ultimate suc- 

 cess in milking cows. 



The kind of cow, I am not going to discuss for I am sched- 

 uled for a talk on the Dairy Cow Demonstration this after- 

 noon. This will not be a cow judging proposition. I will, how- 

 ever, explain some of the wherefores of the dairy types..; 



This matter of the care of cows has been amply elaborated 

 upon by the preceding speaker. Care in stabling of cows is very 

 important. 



The average cows of our country as milk cows are nowhere 

 nearly as poor as we believe. The average cow of the present 

 day is not given a chance, we fill her belly full of corn- stalks 

 and we think she ought to give milk, and she has not a thing, 

 in the world with which to make milk. 



Just a word with reference to the development of this herd, 

 that also is a matter of evolution. The speaker said that you^ 

 cannot buy yourself into the dairy business. That is absolutely 

 true. I knew a man who sold two carloads of beef cattle who 

 had received a conviction that he wanted to get into the dairy' 

 business and he bought dairy cows without reference to prices. 

 The object was to get as many high class pure l^red Holstein cows 

 as the money for the steers would buy. He would not listen 

 to anybody's advice and never in all your life could you find^ 

 a more miserable failure than that man made. 



It occurs to me that to the farmers of this count)^, with the 

 class of cattle introduced into the country and with such real aid 

 towards a most excellent beginning in this dairy business, those 

 cows at the price, are, in my judgment, satisfactory for begin- 

 ning in the dairy business. Whether or not these fellows ful- 

 fill the hope on which they have set their mind will depend up- 

 on the way they tend those cows, weeding out the poor ones, 

 saving the heifer calves, etc. 



