Show 1 T i fi 1 I 1 ft A j I 1 I 1 t i I 1 I 1 rn it 4 if 1 r 1 lz A r I 1 I 1 I 1 N N 1 I I 1 fer M L W sa s1 6 THE MAN M 11 THE COW ow now tho h cow nenuard ken unit din mali who lir ats her well W ell take the county of wisconsin composed of fifteen townships towns hipa MX that county urns oat a t annually over a million of dollars and the babics of that county reported to mo me 1 last st fall that abere ivas on oil deposit iu in their vaults by the dairymen alono alone of that county a million anil and a half balf of dollars where did it boino front from from the constant earnings of this humble animal iu in my own county jefferson the cows cowa earn annually a million aud and a quarter of dollars and tile the effect of this haa been to raie rai e tile lie value of land higher than ever before it lia lias s doubled iu in the lie daily counties whilo while III in those that cling to wheat there is ir no advance though the land was originally better I 1 have been a student of dairying ind and a keen observer of its influence on the community where it is practiced I 1 liae hae ever seen nil an increase in tho the energy an increase in the ability and increase in in tho t solidity of a community that entered into part partnership verith tho cow yet vet I 1 find that hut few men who are engaged in dairying ns as a rule are a 1 decided I sneers in it the great majority of men who keep cows art are going ulong along without any intellectual intellect nal exertion you yon will find these men are arc not makiji making mit it pay iray as it ought to myself and son eon are eng engaged aged in thu business of manufacturing it cheese and butter wo mako inako about 1500 pounds of butter a day and about tho the same number of pounds of cheese now in my o own avit lic homo mo creamery wo have about patrons patron 4 and this will viii give you as though idere I 1 were to map it out on the wall a clear competent idea of success wo take this milk about IG or pounds of it every mornin morning in ili that creamery and ami every mans mil ls tested and the per cent of butter fat it contains cont nus is determined and lie he is credited with that amount at the head of that list is a man of the namo name of mcpherson last 3 ear car wo we paid that roan man in cash sl sixty aty three dollars a b head I 1 as is t tho he earnings of his cows and we returned him his skim milk w N hichwa aich we would have paid him twelve dollars a head more bjore f for or as aa an investment of our own that mado made his cows earn him seventy five dollars a head in cash now eow says ono one nian man that was success buc cess certainly right alongside of him is another man who lias has had the sanie sams opportunities port unities with the lie same sky above him the samo same earth beneath him the same creamery behind him and tho the tamo same macket ahead of him and we paid thit man forty dollars a cow the first man had thirty ti th e 0 cows the last had bad twenty chero lay the difference of if success was it in the tho heavens beavens or in the earth beneath it lay in ili the brain not the hands this man inan mcpherson started arCeil st out with the idea that it takes a deal of study to make a success of the cow coir thirteen years ago his cows were high grade shorthorns Shor thorns interlined interlinked inter lined and crossed with beef blood he came and asked my advice I 1 said isaid want butter very well lotus start ilien then with butter blood buy buyag a site iio or of tile veu very best blood ind and br breeding ceding i ou can get put him at the head of 3 herd unit and from these mother tako in hi daughters awl and then again ind and by ill intelligent el handling anti and breeding produce the herd you want and you can come lu iu me i in in tive five or bix years and say sav fir change has hasi mado nadea a success ife ho did diabo M I 1 now from a herd berl which produced lion pounds of butter a head his cows today produce liim him 0 50 pounds of butter i 1 year that is 0 the io first abid thing I 1 want every man to see lie must have a dairy cow lots of men think it is 13 all feed it is feed too lut but first it is breed then HILR HIL R it is feed extract front from governor hoards flod address |