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5. In building up a herd to be used in experimental work young © 
animals should be selected, animals under one year, or better, but 
a few months old. By having young animals, under like feeding, 
they can be grown to maturity, making the conditions for all the 
same, so that experiments with these animals would be much 
more valuable and conclusive than if their earlier feeding and 
environments had been widely different. 
6. The yearly growth of the animals under like conditions and 
feeding, and the amount of food consumed for the several breeds 
in proportion to their live weight, is of value and importance to 
the dairyman, and would form a part of the trial. 
7. At least four animals of each breed should be had, two 
heifers and two steers. The two heifers from each breed would 
be the beginning for a herd, finally enabling us to study the breed 
characteristics in production of milk and butter. Twosteers from 
each breed fed and grown to maturity and fattened would show 
much as to the relative values of the dairy breeds for beef. 
8. The question, which is the more profitable for the dairy, a 
small cow or a large one, is of much importance, and what place 
is better fitted to investigate this subject than an experiment 
station? 
9. Whether with two foods of similar composition both will 
affect equally the milk and butter yield, or whether one will tend 
more to the production of body fat and less to an increase of milk. 
10. The influence of the various grains fed separately and 
combined in rations, and to what extent the chemical and physical 
properties of butter are influenced by different foods. 
IT have but briefly indicated the general scope of the proposed 
investigation, but I can not but think it will meet your entire 
approval and receive your codperation and that of your associates 
in this important branch of our agricultural industry. 
At the annual meeting of the Holstein-Friesian Association, held 
shortly after the publication of the above proposed investigation 
at’ Buffalo, March twenty-first, Mr. E. A. Powell submitted the 
matter to the association and spoke in hearty approval of the 
plan, and the subject was discussed as follows: : 
Mr. Powreiyi.—TI will say that the scope of the experiments is broad; 
it takes in nearly everything — or is intended to take in everything — 
for which a breed of cattle is used. It seems to me that we have a 
breed of cattle that is better adapted to make a fine showing in that 
