Show RAISE BETTER COWS CALL TO DAIRYMEN advice of old applies to conditions away back in the nineties there was a business depression just about as severe as the one through which we are now passing dairymen suffered along with the lie others an ain agricultural ri writer of that day told his readers that fiat the solution of the problem lay largely with thenis themselves elves that what the lie most of them needed was letter better cows here la Is his striking description d of the cows of his day the average cow of today Is made wrong wrens her head Is too big and tier her udder adder too small her shoulders are too wide and her hips too narrow tier her skin la Is hard ano and tier her butter too soft she has too much tall and tallow and too little capacity to make milk and butter tier her ancestry Is seldom respectable she has two intrinsically good qualities appetite and constitutional vigor they will do to graft upon the average cow Is an innocent nuisance she Is the workmanship of the average farmer far nier she has not been bred right she has not been fed right she lias has not been cared for as she should be anil and she gets e even ven in the wholesale robbery of the trian man who made lier her what she Is the average cow today Is a lot better than the average cow in the nineties but it Is still true that it la Is the man with cows above the average who can best weather a depression |