LORETTA D. AMERICA S CHAMPION DAIRY COW. 
THIS is Loretta D. , the beautiful Jersey that easily won the well-earned title, "Champion Cow of the World," 
during the 120-days' test at the St. Louis Exposition. She gave 5,892 pounds of milk, which made 330 
pounds of butter, with a net profit of $67.74, at the same time consuming less feed than any other cow in the 
competition. A young son of Loretta D recently sold for $1,250 to head one of the best Jersey herds in New 
York State. The gland system of this wonderful milk producer has remarkable power to convert food into but- 
ter fat. This power is inherited from her ancestors, as she comes from one of the best bred and most carefully 
selected herds in the country. Dairymen are willing to pay fabulous prices for her calves in order to improve their 
own herds and thus increase the butter-making power at a less cost for jeed. 
beauty. And quite as wonderful as any other 
is the transformation wrought in the strawberry 
from the httle wild berry of a few years ago 
to the splendid fruit that adorns the world's 
table today. And to the achievements in this 
direction, during the last quarter of a century, 
perhaps no other has contributed more import- 
ant and permanent assistance than the founder 
of the great strawberry farm that bears his name — 
the late R. M. Kellogg. Fortunately for the 
world, the work Mr. Kellogg began and so firmly 
established is being carried on today with the 
intelligence, skill and devotion of its founder, 
and the great farm that stands as a monument 
to his memory is expanding its area and ex- 
tending its influence with the passing years. 
System, scientific method, lie at the base of all 
that has been accomplished on the Kellogg farm. 
Havirig certain ideals in mind, everything that is 
done tends to the realization of those ideals. 
There is no mystery about it; no wizard " 
touch may bring desired results. Science and 
practical skill, applied to the breeding of plants, 
produce the same order of results as have given 
the world wireless telegraphy and the ninety-mile 
passenger train. Asked to address the Ameri- 
can Breeders' association at its annual meeting 
held at Champaign, 111., February, 1905, Frank 
E. Beatty, president and general manager of the 
Kellogg farm, briefly outlined the methods that 
obtain there in the following: 
" Only a few years ago any man who attempt- 
ed to improve fruits or grain by selection was 
called a crank, but today he is looked upon 
with admiration, and the majority of the people 
believe that with proper manipulation, improve- 
ment in plants is within the power of man the 
same as improvement in animals; the proof has 
been furnished by works. The same God who 
created animals created plants, and both were put 
here inferior in quality and form. 
"Improvement in them, like invention, was 
left for m:m to work out, giving man full control 
over them with power to improve or degrade. 
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