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Show ! COW TESTIK3 ASSOCIATION j PLANNED IN SALT LAKE ! Just because Daisy or Dev or Blackie is the descendant of a venerattd cow i tnat urew a handcart across the plains, or a family pet for other reasons, such as a siar in the middle of her forehead or one white foot, is not to be sufficient i justification for her continuance in favor I in the future. She must qualify with a ! maximum number of fat globules dis-I dis-I tributed homogeneously throughout a i record number of quarts of milk. In short, Daisy's food is to be weighed weigh-ed and the same charged up to her. Then she is to be credited with the worth of the milk and butter fat that she gives night and morning, and according ac-cording to the excess of the receipts over the disbursements she shall be judged. This is to be the direct result of the formation of a Cow Testing association asso-ciation now being fostered in Salt Lake by W. E. Meyer of the dairy division of the department of agriculture. Al- j ready ten farmers and owners of dairy j cattle have made application to be ad- mitted to the association. When twenty- j five applicants have been listed in the! vicinity of Salt Lake the org ization 1 will be completed and each member of the association is taxed $1.50 for each cow. ' Under the arrangement Dy which the many associations already organized by the government are conducted each cow's capacity for fodder consumption is tabulated, as is also her milk and butter-producing capacity, the tests be-ing be-ing supervised by a government agent. Should the information thus collected prove that the pet bovine is not a paving pav-ing proposition the family will probably be called upon to shed tears over her demise and her place in the herd will j be filled by a less favo.ed but more j productive specimen. |