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Show bacterial diseases, it f and young animals ar ble to parasites and i,:,Oi :ATIO..-l. Special emphasis m i.:, Onej bulletin upon diset Is the sheepman's unless they app disease, and as abcock test to thei is noticed a es ruij fj:ul out which should be callehcil. foC(1 t d v ilicn do department V ... iYe cow.testir!i trouble when' '.d-ii-i A postmorteiri '"0 cs a ! '-" ' the sick animnV community to test;,a! ci save "ith an average of 25 : erabeirJ'- cost of such an associa-' - " f '1' : on u' ;zi,-mounts to from . to 1 1.50 pevJcow per year. , I What als the results from conduc , i ng a cow-testing association? Tc ; c aote from the government report ' oeven herds in Michigan have re 'ji -.ained continuously in the Michig'tii " c isociation since it was formed i' 1 305. In 1906 the average yield for ' rich cov? was 5,885 pounds of miik ' End 231.1 pounds of butterfat. In'j 1315, the average yield per cow wa. , C. 123.4 pounds of milk and 284.7 1 r Dunds of fat. The profit from eacl ; c:w was $22.23 in 1906; in 1915 th 1 P'ofit per cow was $51. OS, or an in 1 cease of $28. S5 per cow." Improvement in dairy productior i !ce-;::itatcs an improvement in th -iciiryman as well as improvement it life cov; and improvement in tht I t! ?iry methods. The cow-testing rr ' nciation opens the dairyman's eye ' ! a nd makes of his business an exac i profession. i The plan of the co-operative cow-I cow-I testing association , came from Den , i :ark in 1895. Ten years later the testing association with some modi f'cations was introduced into the United States. , The growth of the movement 'V : lis country has been rapid. July l,j 1314, nine years after the first as , I sociation was organized, there wei 9( 11103 associations operating in 30 dif-j I ferent states. ! j The co-operative cow-testing as-1 ;!sjciatlon is founded on the principal I't'iat a number of dairymen v-1 i situated near each other in ant.om ' r.-.unity can organize and emp,oy a ! r an to do their testing more cheaply! ' avid more satisfactorily than they; ; c m do it themselves. The most oon-! v m'ent association to operate is one ' s mposed of 26 members. Itils i : umber pe-mits ihe tester to spe.i.1 a i ' el :lv each montn at each place w-kiio.'i h i iiig to wor i Tundays or . idays i i s' me assiO: . .'on? the test'-r furnishes fur-nishes his own horse and buggy, am drives from place to place; in others j each farmer takes him to the nex j testing place. The tester, supplied with an out ft, arrives at the home of the dairy ; n an in the afternoon, weighs and takes proportionate sample of milk of each cow separately, and weigh, the feed which she consumes. In the morning, he repeats these operations. opera-tions. The samples from the evening and morning milkings are put together to-gether to form composite samples ( which are tested for -.butterfat. To find the production for the month , !ho tester multiplies his results for , 1 the day by the number of days In the . ' month. The yearly production U the s im of 12 monthly credits. In ad- . ; dition to the duties named in his con- ( tract the tester is expected to concern , 1 in: self with the welfare of the dairy , i.itererts of the community in which ( le works. He should be qualified end willing to assist the farmer in nicli problems as the balancing of , rations and the planning of impl-ove tnents. Those who have had experience vith cow letting a.-soeiations are 'nitcd in the opinion ih.et ev-ry d:'ir;- . 'emmunity crould have one. -, " ' , When yon have a pariy. telephone v.s the news of it; we want to print it |