Show HERD RECORDS OF MUCH importance improvement associations asso 1 actions growth aid to farmers Prepa prepared by the united united states department ot of agriculture culture dairy farmers in the united states apparently are taking inc increasing rensing interest in the bookkeeping end of their business if 11 the growth of the dairy herd improvement association movement la Is a fair air indication there are now 1090 1000 such associations in tills this country according to dr J C mcdowell of the bureau of dairy industry united states department of agriculture an increase of nearly CO per cent in the last four years he fie predicts a continued growth of the movement and cites its past history to support his view the idea of keeping production and cost records on the dairy herd start started ef with one cow testing association in 1000 doctor mcdowell rec allsBy recalls by the end of 1924 there were improvement associations as they are now called during the next nest four years the annual growth of the movement was even greater in 1925 there w was as a gain of 45 associations or 0 per cent over the previous year in 1 1920 there was a gain of CO 60 or 8 per cent in 1927 a gain of or 13 per cent and in 1028 a gain of US associations ciati ons or 15 per cent thus there were 1090 associations on january 1 1029 DIn in which the members were keeping books on cows this represents a remarkable growth in the use of business method on the dairy farm says doctor mcdowell but bilt there are still about cows being kept kepi for milk lu in tile the united states whose owners might also profit by entering them ina in a dalry dairy herd association |