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Show 4 Million Dairy Cows Now In ABA More than four million dairy cows in nearly half a million herds are now in artificial-breeding associations, asso-ciations, which indicates that about one out of every six dairy cows in the United States prob-baly prob-baly will be bred arti'ficially in 1951, tlfe U. SA. department of agriculture ag-riculture reports. On January 1, there were 4,077, 706 cows in 467,224 herds in 1,653 associations, according to Dr. J. F. Kendrick, head of the division of dairy herd improvement investiga- ' tions in the bureau of dairy industry. indus-try. This is an all-time high; com- J pared with the previous year, it is ' an increase of 44.2 in the num- J bers of cows and 25.3 in the i number of herds. j |