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Show y-ri IMPROVED DAIBY8NQ o Vcan In much of. the West cattle raising for beef has long been the principal business, but dairying is comparatively new. There is an extensive market, however, for dairy products, and especially es-pecially In the newly settled regions it Is found that the dairy industry fills such a place In agricultural economy that Its development Is urgently needed. . In addition, a special entorpriso has been undertaken with creamery patrons pa-trons in somo states, the object being to determine whether it will pay creameries to carry on tho same sort of work among their own farmer patrons pa-trons for tho sake of getting a better quality of cream as material for making mak-ing butter. Here also record keeping has been Introduced, along with othor Improved methods, and tin. effort is made to discover the leaks that reduce re-duce profits. In the older states of the North dairying is already an established and highly developed Industry. Cow-testing Cow-testing associations aro societies for co-operating in tho koeping of herd records by engaging a man who goes from farm to farm periodically, makes observations and keeps records for the herds of ail the members of the association. By this moans records I f . ver are secured without tho troublo or ex- iidur; pense involved when each man keeps f them for himself; and in various other "V T ways the co-operation of the farmers I are Is productlvo of profit. The primary , "5; objects are to detect and weed out In- -', SB fcrlor individual cows, and by the use ' of pure-bred bulls to perpetuate nnd , I intensify the valuable characteristics I of the cows that are found to be good I ones thus raising the averago quality 1 of the Individual cow and tho total '' I productiveness of tho herd. Thero aro r - I eighty-five cow-testing associations I ' now in twenty states, comprising I 1 45,000 cows. ' I The records of ono of these associa- 1 1 tlons show that tho profit was doubled "4i after four years' work. For Instance,' U-.JP a man with eight cows found, the first t $p month of keeping records, that ho was j TTT losing ny. cents per cow, or 41 cents I Sj - . on his herd for that month.. After K three months' testing ho was making V a profit of $32 a month on the herd. j $ f and at tho end of tho year his profit I '"' has increased to $50 a month. This '' llKo notable increase was" due largely to - ' &bl tho sale of five of his poorest cows. a jKd nnd the purchase of as many welU .3 CJul producing ones to tako their places. ' 1 In addition, there wero changes made fafaf In tho method of feodlng. which con- pRa duccd to the results; ' " -' :'l |