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Show BETTER STANDARD OF DAIR1 Farmers Allow City Dairymen to Pick Out Best Producers In Herd Quality Deteriorates. It HccniH to bo true that the qualitj o" the farm dairy herds in of a much lower standard In practically every way than thoso of the city dairyman. This really works to the detriment of the farmer and yet he Is to blame for the whole thing. The city dairyman who must buy all of his feed knows Unit he cannot afford to keep a cow unless she Is a real producer, therefore he goes out Into the country and persuades per-suades the farmer to part with the very best cows in his herd. The cow Is taken to the city and worked as haid as possible until she begins to fail, when she Is sold to the butcher. All of her calves have gone to the same place and thus we see that nothing noth-ing whatever has been done toward building up the standard of tho dairy animals of tho country. Circumstances make It necessary that the city dairyman should make a very close study of the business and Heavy-Producing Cow. knowledge thus acquired enables him to take advantage of the average farmer farm-er when he goes out into the country In search of cows to add to his herd. Very seldom does he consider buying the cows that the farmer is willing to dispose of but he ferrets out those that ho is confident are the real producers pro-ducers and, be it said to the credit of his shrewdness, he usually gets what he wants. Such sales are bound to keep any herd down to a mediocre standard because be-cause the cows that really produced a profit are gone, also there Is but small likelihood of any Improvement because calves from poor cows seldom prove more valuable than their dam. Such methods usually allow the quality of the herd to deteriorate. |