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Show COW-TESTING ASSOCIATIONS Small Group of Michigan Farmers First Entered Upon Experiment Considered Doubtful. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Fifteen years ago a small group of farmers In . Michigan entered, upon what many of them probably considered consid-ered a very doubtful experiment. It was the organization of an association for testing their cows, In respect to how much feed they ate and how much milk they gave; an association such as the farmers of Denmark had orlglnat- Cpw-Testing Associations Have Proved ui Bl8 8uoeess. ed about ten years before, and which various bther European countries had copied; ' .-t .. . . . Theeikperlment, as studied by the United States Department of.Agrleul; ture, proved a success, however, and now the. number of such associations has grown from 1 to 452. It is notable chat some states which took up the :dea at an early date have stuck to he movement and organized more and more associations, while others continue con-tinue with, only a few. Most states increase the number of their cow-testing associations as time goes on and he Department of Agriculture is fos-ering fos-ering the work. The lack of testers during the war bused a setback to the movement, but ecovery from thlB has taken place, ind the number of associations In the ountry is now much larger than! it vas before the war. |
