Show Testing Cow-Testing Is IsAid IsAid Aid to Dairying Associations N Now ov Throwing Light on Production of Cows Prepared by the United States Slate Department of ot Agriculture Seven Se hundred and two thirty-two stars now adorn a map of ot the United States In the office of ot the bureau of or dairying of Dr the United States Department of or Agriculture These stars represent the lumber of ot testing cow-testing associations now throwing light lIS-ht on the milk and butterfat butter- butter fat production of or cows Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of or dairymen have watched with Interest the growth of the testing Idea from the time the first star was placed on the map In ill 1000 1006 to the present with stars marI marking the progressive dalr dairy communities Like Chart of Heavens This the bureau be map says sas ma may likened to a chart of ot the starr starry heavens heavens hea- hea ens in the carl early evening As the stars begin to appear one b by one themore then the more rapidly and finally In clusters In ever every part pmt of ot the sides so have the testing cow associations appeared first one b by one then more rapidly and now in groups In Ia various parts of the United States To 10 carr carry this tills analogy still further The Newaygo o count county Mich association I atlan the first to be organized in the United States way may represent the evening eve ec ning star which is the first to come out The big associations of our western western west west- ern era coast may muy represent the largest planets Other smaller but no less worth worthy associations ma may be thought of ofIs ofas ofas as Is stars of or various magnitudes Some Somer of r tile die more brilliant associations ma may maybe mayhe he be likened to Mercury Yen Venus us and Mars but It requires no wild of the Imagination to detect the milky wa way In that great group of testing cow associations that extends In a long hang and graceful curve from flom the Dakotas through the upper tipper stretches of the Mississippi and St St. Lawrence valle valleys s 's then across the Alleghenies to the eastern shores of New ew England Cows Now on Test In these associations 12 per Ier cen cent of ot our dairy dalr cows are now on test As the years ears roll round It is hoped says sn's the department that more and more cows may a be he placed on test and that finally every dairyman mav mar become a PU nn member of ot ofa a awake wide testing cow-testing association Then will the analogy of ot the stars and the associations be com corn |